Experience

ION Solar

Senior Rails Engineer • April, 2022 — Present

Support the development of a new mobile first application for sales representatives in the field. Created a culture of industry best practices for software delivery including test-driven development with JavaScript, pair programming and user-story focused development.

  • Implement software delivery best practices into the teams
  • Design and build a mobile application using Ionic and Angular
  • Provide mentorship and strategies for adopting new technologies

WORKPLACE21

Principal, Technology • May, 2020 — Mar, 2022

Responsible for architecting and building a web application from a behavior model that generates KPIs from multiple data sources for individuals and teams. Other functions included

  • Manage and mentor a team of developers
  • Create and execute developer workflow processes
  • Build and maintain application infrastructure across multiple environments

Borboleta Beauty, Inc.

Senior Full Stack Developer • Jul, 2019 — Mar, 2020

Responsible for an e-commerce store grossing $10M in annual sales. Implemented a custom build and deployment process for rapid, low-touch releases. Leveraged both REST and GraphQL APIs to build a custom data warehouse as well as a variety of back-end tools. Rolled out new initiatives and processes to improve team performance centered around agile development best practices. Mentored other team members on both career and skill development.

Red Lake, LLC

Senior Web Developer • May, 2011 — Jul, 2019

Contract full-stack web developer specializing in Ruby/Rails frameworks. Designed and developed API for multiple web apps (front and back-end). Implemented agile principals for dev teams. Mentored junior developers and established Scrum workflows. Facilitated design sprints to address challenging team roadblocks. Spearheaded initiatives through use of quarterly OKRs. Implemented the release management process for several repositories. Led development team to improved release cycles which resulted in better releases at more regular intervals.

Education

Westminster College

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science • 2004 — 2008

Computer science major. Business minor.

Additional Projects

Core Logic

Architect & Senior Developer • Jun, 2021 — Dec, 2021

Built an implementation of a behavior model that generated KPIs for users based on message data from social services like Slack and Google and AI sentiment analysis.

Data Warehouse

Senior Developer • Jan, 2020 — Mar, 2020

Designed and built custom data warehouse of Shopify sales data to interface with business intelligence tools, providing greater flexibility and cost savings compared to vendor offerings.

Modern Slavery Registry

Developer • Jun, 2019 — Aug, 2019

Update and modernize reporting functionality of a Rails application using BDD best practices with RSpec and Cucumber for a non-profit that works to eradicate slave labor in the modern world by tracking and reporting on UK companies and their supply chains.

Mothership

Developer • 2019

Built and maintained licensing server for major WordPress membership plugin using Padrino and Heroku pipelines. Managed product development and release management.

Buy Now Plus

Developer • 2018

Designed and built Angular/Express.js web app integrating Stripe Connect for buy button payments. Maintained backend Node/Mongo stack. Setup Heroku pipelines for testing, staging and production deployment.

Skills

Organizational Leadership

5+ years leading and mentoring developers. Building teams from the ground up and implementing industry best practices. Optimizing processes and workflows to ship high-quality code consistently and efficiently.

Web Application Development

11+ years developing web applications with a focus on Rails for statups. Skills and knowledge to design, architect and build well tested, modern web applications.

Experience with a large variety of web stack technologies including Ruby, Rails, Node.js, Go (Golang), JavaScript, React, Angular, Ionic, Mapbox, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Microservices, git, Vim, RSpec, Cucumber, TDD and BDD.

Experience also building and integrating applications with REST APIs for social and payment services.

DevOps

Experience building and managing deployment platforms and technologies including Heroku, AWS, Chef, Vagrant and Docker.

Associations

Utah Ruby User Group

Member • 2012 — 2022

User group for Ruby developers in Utah.

Silicon Slopes

Member • 2019 — 2022

An organizing body that facilitates events and promotes community at the intersection of technology, business and politics.

GoRails

Member • 2019 — 2022

A community of developers focused on Rails and learning.

Outside Interests

  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  • Economics
  • Blockchain
  • Mountain Biking
  • Kettlebells
  • Reading
  • Cinema