Joshua Bates

Current

• Software Engineer at JackRabbit Systems

Past

• Software Engineer at Caring.com
• Software Engineer at Vizulex Inc.
• Software Engineer at Never Sold Out

• Software Engineer at Democracy Now
• Web Developer at Studio X
• Founder at Dropcaster
• Web Developer at Xynergy
• Programmer at Virtual Sites

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Caring.com

Joshua Bates’s Summary

Senior web developer and software engineer with over seven years experience in producing dynamic websites and web applications.

Joshua Bates’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, MYSQL, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, Linux, AWS, TDD, Background Processing, Screen Scraping

Joshua Bates’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  JackRabbit Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Lead developer. Working on numerous ruby based projects.
  
  - Built a hotel reservation engine
  - Ruby DSL to speed up the creation & maintenance of 100's of recipes for pulling data from our partners.
  - Scalable Nanite/AMQP based message queue to handle massive background processing load (millions/day)
  - Moved all company applications & services to EC2 with Rightscale

• Software Engineer

  Caring.com

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 2 months)

  Used Ruby on Rails to build various parts of the site (Local, To-Do Lists, Ask and Answer, etc). Did lot's of front end work using HAML/SASS/Compass.

• Software Engineer

  Vizulex Inc.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  March 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  Using Java to build the company's proof-of-concept prototype, I created web-based software to help doctors easily visualize potential interactions between multiple prescription drugs, and botanicals. Worked with another developer on a rewrite in Ruby on Rails and Flash.

• Software Engineer

  Never Sold Out

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  Created a web-based application that streamlines inventory purchasing from multiple vendors, replacing an outsourced system that cost the company close to 25K per month. The solution combined a Ruby on Rails interface to distributed Ruby, pushing content to the browser with Comet.

• Software Engineer

  Democracy Now

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  Lead developer for the new website of this nationally syndicated radio program. Using Ruby on Rails.

• Web Developer

  Studio X

  (Internet industry)

  September 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Perl/PHP/Rails programming, and XHTML/CSS build outs for local sites.

• Founder

  Dropcaster

  (Internet industry)

  April 2005 — September 2005 (6 months)

  Built a podcasting system for independent musicians with Ruby on Rails.

• Web Developer

  Xynergy

  (Internet industry)

  April 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  Lead PHP developer for various government and business sites, including http://www.newmexico.org and http://www.governor.state.nm.us/

• Programmer

  Virtual Sites

  (Internet industry)

  January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

Additional Information

Joshua Bates’s Websites:

• Caring.com

Joshua Bates’s Groups:

•    Ruby on Rails
•    BayAPLN
•    Rubyists

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