Experience

FORM │ Virtual obesity medicine clinic

• United States
• Health, Wellness & Fitness
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  Helping to push the state of the art in obesity telehealth at an early stage startup; working on a very small but high performing team that moves quickly and safely. - Ruby on Rails back-end and clinical tools - React components where needed - TailwindCSS - GraphQL (Apollo Server) via AWS Lambda - Cypress E2E testing - integrating SaaS for heavy lifting (e.g. Customer.io, Sendbird, Contentful, Cronofy, Zoom, Elation, Dockhealth) - extensive monitoring and logging (Honeycomb, Scout APM, Bugsnag, LogDNA) - analytics (Segment, Redash) - feature flags for all user-facing changes (LaunchDarkly) - HIPAA compliance, data security processes Show less



Interfolio from Elsevier

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sr. Backend Rails Engineer

  • Feb 2019 - Jun 2020

  Day-to-day: - maintain and extend both mature and new Rails APIs in a SOA - APIs consumed by internal apps, SPAs and external clients - technologies: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, Amazon SNS/SQS - participate in architectural decisions Challenges: - balancing customer priorities and company growth with the need to do significant refactoring in a legacy codebase - simultaneously being both bold and conservative Acting as a force multiplier: - mentoring junior and less experienced Rails developers - suggesting improvements to team processes and coding standards as needed - challenging the status quo Show less



Doximity

• United States
• Software Development
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

  • Feb 2016 - Feb 2019

  - full-stack Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, GraphQL, MySQL, Backbone.js, ElasticSearch - large/mature mostly monolithic application continually being split out into many smaller apps - full-stack Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, GraphQL, MySQL, Backbone.js, ElasticSearch - large/mature mostly monolithic application continually being split out into many smaller apps



bespoke offers

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ruby on Rails Developer

  • Jul 2012 - Nov 2015

  - e-commerce web application for a large company - Rails 3.x/4.x app with engines, 100s of gems and 1000s of tests, dozens of Git repos - 20-25 Rails developers on the team, 120+ people total - quality code was top priority - extensive code reviews for all work - dealing with banking security - e-commerce web application for a large company - Rails 3.x/4.x app with engines, 100s of gems and 1000s of tests, dozens of Git repos - 20-25 Rails developers on the team, 120+ people total - quality code was top priority - extensive code reviews for all work - dealing with banking security



Analog Analytics

• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer

  • Jun 2011 - Jun 2012

  - Back-end development for daily-deal/coupon platform provider. - Required familiarity with all areas of a mature application with many moving parts. - Shared responsibility for deployment, monitoring/alerting, client-interaction, requirements analysis, etc. - Team of ~10 highly skilled engineers. - 50% of time spent pairing, mostly co-located, but sometimes remote via screensharing. - Back-end development for daily-deal/coupon platform provider. - Required familiarity with all areas of a mature application with many moving parts. - Shared responsibility for deployment, monitoring/alerting, client-interaction, requirements analysis, etc. - Team of ~10 highly skilled engineers. - 50% of time spent pairing, mostly co-located, but sometimes remote via screensharing.



Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer

  • Aug 2010 - Jun 2011

  - Early-stage application development for brand-new wellness platform to be released April 2011. - Brought on as a Rails expert to transition Java developers and ensure best practices would be followed. - Lead developer of API to be used by companion iPhone application. - Early-stage application development for brand-new wellness platform to be released April 2011. - Brought on as a Rails expert to transition Java developers and ensure best practices would be followed. - Lead developer of API to be used by companion iPhone application.



Radius Management

• Portland, OR

• Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

  - Designed and developed a custom web application to support all aspects of the business. - Web app powered 7 public-facing websites (5 retail, 1 financing and 1 purchasing) and a backend administrative application to manage inventory, licensees, reporting, marketing, sales, purchasing, etc. - Full life-cycle development, including server setup/administration, source code versioning, scheduled backups, performance monitoring, etc. - Created many tools to improve efficiency and facilitate innovation, new initiatives. Show less



ZisBoomBah.com

• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer

  • 2010 - 2010

  *** Won Grand Prize in Michelle Obama’s “Apps for Health Kids” competition. *** - Early-stage application development for startup company. - Migrated application to cloud-based services (Heroku, S3). - Implemented multimedia features using JavaScript/jQuery (sound effects, Flash animation). - Managed Git repository and handled staging, deployment and system administration. - Used Unfuddle for issue tracking and time management. *** Won Grand Prize in Michelle Obama’s “Apps for Health Kids” competition. *** - Early-stage application development for startup company. - Migrated application to cloud-based services (Heroku, S3). - Implemented multimedia features using JavaScript/jQuery (sound effects, Flash animation). - Managed Git repository and handled staging, deployment and system administration. - Used Unfuddle for issue tracking and time management.



Cornerstone Technologies/YourGenie

• remote

• Java Web Application Developer

  • Jan 2007 - Mar 2008

  - Developed web application for YourGenie, a venture capital-backed startup e-business. - Worked with 2 other developers in a small, distributed team environment. - Customized ElasticPath framework to meet project requirements. - Worked with Java J2EE (Jakarta Struts/Velocity, Hibernate, Tomcat) and MySQL 5. - Converted business mockups into functional web application components. - Integrated e-commerce (Verisign) and shipping management (UPS) solutions. - Developed web application for YourGenie, a venture capital-backed startup e-business. - Worked with 2 other developers in a small, distributed team environment. - Customized ElasticPath framework to meet project requirements. - Worked with Java J2EE (Jakarta Struts/Velocity, Hibernate, Tomcat) and MySQL 5. - Converted business mockups into functional web application components. - Integrated e-commerce (Verisign) and shipping management (UPS) solutions.



Digital Dreamboard

• remote

• Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer

  • Apr 2007 - Oct 2007

  - LAMP/Rails developer (startup project, unpaid) - Co-developed web application using LAMP (Perl Catalyst) and later converted to RoR. - LAMP/Rails developer (startup project, unpaid) - Co-developed web application using LAMP (Perl Catalyst) and later converted to RoR.



Plenable Solutions

• remote

• LAMP developer (full stack)

  • Apr 2003 - Aug 2006

  - Developed web applications for Decorative Product Source (faucet.com) and Vintage Arte (vintagearte.com) - Worked with 2 other developers and a project manager in a small, distributed team environment. - Developed a scalable, customizable web application framework to support business processes including web sales, inventory management, account auditing/reporting, vendor interaction, etc. - Integrated websites with e-commerce solutions (Verisign, Cybersource) - Wrote custom search to query a large database of products sorting results by relevance. - Developed custom authentication/authorization to precisely control user permissions. - Administered multiple Linux servers to support development/deployment. Show less



Point Of Choice

• Fairfield, IA and remote

• LAMP Developer (full stack)

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2003

  - Developed custom CMS to drive a proprietary recipe content module for grocery chain websites, and the in-house/flagship website, MealsForYou.com. - Worked with 2-3 other developers in a small team environment. - Managed all daily operations, including system administration, - Developed custom CMS to drive a proprietary recipe content module for grocery chain websites, and the in-house/flagship website, MealsForYou.com. - Worked with 2-3 other developers in a small team environment. - Managed all daily operations, including system administration,