Lead Rails Engineer at ZURB
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Lead Rails Engineer at ZURB
- Lead Rails Engineer at HotChalk, Inc.
- Private Consultant (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Student Computing Lab Assistant at California State University Chico
- Intern Analyst at Accenture
- Pre-Professional Programmer at IBM
- Education
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- California State University-Chico
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Matt Kelly’s Summary
Born into a world gone mad with Java, and the promise of order and civilization brought at the hands of object oriented programming, I went down to the river of PHP to be reborn.
But alas, these were false gods. Although fast and thread safe, my web applications were still in chaos. SQL injection was rampant, models views and controllers all co-mingled in a shanty town they named index.php.
In the midst of a battle between the strongly and weakly typed languages I fled town, seeking something wholesome and good. It was then that I found Ruby on Rails, a shinning beacon of hope.
There is still much work to be done, but I feel I am on the path to sanity.
Matt Kelly’s Specialties:
Ruby on Rails, REST, MySQL, AWS, S3, EC2, PHP, JAVA, <%= hip_and_trendy_buzzword %>
Matt Kelly’s Experience
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Lead Rails Engineer
ZURB
(Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
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Lead Rails Engineer
HotChalk, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Wearing many swords to lead a band of 5 full time ninjas and a hand full of mercenaries to honor. Technical evaluation of other ninja households for possible alliances. Design attack strategy and lead campaigns. Evaluate new weapons and equipment.
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Private Consultant
Sole Proprietorship
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)
Implement and maintain custom software to track orders and publish order status on external website. Billing 20+ hours a month.
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Rails Engineer
HotChalk
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)
April 2007 — November 2007 (8 months)
Elite rails ninja charged with every task required to keep a growing Rails application from exploding.
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Consultant
Accenture
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2005 — April 2007 (2 years)
Full time IT Consulting position at AT&T involving web services design and development for various retail interfaces.
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Officer
ACM
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)
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Student Computing Lab Assistant
California State University Chico
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)
November 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Conducted classroom training for Dreamweaver, Flash, and Microsoft Office.
Provided technical computer support for Chico State students.
Analyzed and solved DSL and Dial-up issues for customers over the phone -
Intern Analyst
Accenture
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)
Developer position at State of California client involving implementing and maintaining batch applications for a high profile production application.
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Pre-Professional Programmer
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
May 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 4 months)
Assisted DB2 technical support teams.
Managed internal IT tasks.
Conducted regression testing for DB2 version 6.
Maintained customer escalation list.
Trained other interns on company systems and protocols.
Matt Kelly’s Education
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California State University-Chico
CSCI , Minor in MIS , 2000 — 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Vice Commodore of the Chico State Sailing club, ACM officer
