On this international contract I helped a small company based in Ireland with various back-end rails tasks while most of my coworkers got ready for bed.

• Added support for distributing event tickets through Apple and Google Wallets.
• Improved CI tools and tooling.
• Helped document various processes.
• Improved unit tests and code maintainability.

At Dutchie I helped build the initial versions of DutchiePay, an ACH based payment system, conceptually similar to PayPal. Because of our privileged access to people's money this work required extreme caution with regards to data validity, auditability, and security.

• Worked in a heavily customized Rails stack that leveraged protobuffers, and multiple Rails Engines.
• Mentored junior developers.
• Provided on-call engineering support for our servers.

At DockYard I spent the majority of my time in a staff-aug capacity and worked to make existing apps more reliable, maintainable, and tested.

• Upgraded multiple Rails sites to modern versions and gems.
• Significantly refactored a multi-threaded Ruby data ingester and made it testable.
• Maintained and added testing to a legacy Rails app.
• Introductory Elixir work.

My role and responsibilities grew significantly during my years at One Door.

• Provided technical expertise to help Product team scope out new features.
• Merged multi-year divergent codebases to minimize custom code maintenance, improve stability, & streamline new development.
• Architected & implemented solution to re-integrate divergent databases.
• Spearheaded creation of incident management processes and documentation.
• Provided deep application knowledge as key Subject Matter Expert and Tech Lead for multiple teams.
• Created & led “Support” team for resolving production bugs.
• Managed offshore development team.
• Created release management process & served as release manager to guarantee only approved code went to production.
  • Coded tools to extract data from Jira and Git to help audit the code in each release.
• Designed custom CSV Parser and validator to provide customers with detailed feedback on CSV problems.
• Became a Certified Scrum Master.

As the first web developer in a new business unit, I was responsible for putting together the first customer-facing graphs and information pages, as well as tools to allow customers to provision internal systems. As the team grew and we acquired Acerno, I helped improve and expand the primary internal provisioning system that came along with the acquisition.

My various projects involved the use of Java with Struts, Perl, and Python.

I've been working professionally (as a web developer) since 1995. I spent the first eight years working for myself. Before then, I spent a number of years doing Graphic Design, Prepress (flexographic and traditional), and Web Design work.

macOS, Linux (Ubuntu and RedHat primarily). AWS's S3 and EC2. I have limited experience with Free BSD, and Windows.

Ruby is my primary languge, but I've used Bash, Common Lisp, Crystal, Elixir, Go, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Raku, Racket, SQL, Scheme, and others. If it's in common use I've probably either worked in it, or fixed something in it.

Also, English, and Esperanto.