🌈 Aaron Ransley Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, Us

* Working to grow the interactive web services & user interfaces for core products at Duality.* Interfacing with Falcon, a digital twin simulator built atop Unreal Engine, allowing enterprise customers to model real-world spaces, simulate movement and changes in state, and collect detailed data to solve problems. Customer use-cases include machine-learning, warehouse automation, architectural visualization, manufacturing inspection, and robotics programming.* Collaborating closely with remote-first, distributed teams in product design, customer experience, and cloud provisioning to develop robust, predictable, and performant UI systems for use on the web and in-engine.

Portland, Or, Us

* Introduced and migrated production pipelines to use Vue, GraphQL, and Nuxt as standard tooling in building web frontends. Prototyped and implemented data-access layer via GraphQL for use with FINE's internal Fae CMS in a "headless" configuration* Prototyped and guided development of internal dev toolkit for rapid setup of new projects* Took over and continued to develop frontend standards with FINE's Director of Technology. Provided support and mentorship to peers around best practices* Led frontend code reviews, worked with the Director of Technology to maintain review processes* Worked with the Director of Technology and design team to help shape the production process and enable smooth handoffs between design and development* Served as FINE's lead frontend specialist, with support from the Director of Technology* Supported documentalists, Client Services and Operations as needed on questions and initiatives related to frontend development* Trusted in complex development projects with strategic challenges* Split duties between: 80% of week focused on billable, client-facing project builds + maintenance; 20% of week focused on upleveling frontend development techniques + pairing with junior developers + developing & adopting new tooling* Worked closely with our project managers, designers, production managers, and other developers. Maintained a clear focus on building websites that are beautiful, performant, and maintainable* Transitioned to working remotely full-time

Portland, Or, Us

* Key asset in production pipeline, implementing client-facing frontends and dev-centric middleware, optimized to current and trending industry standards* Built and launched projects with Rails, Ruby, HTML, CSS and Javascript* Contributed to research and implementation of emerging frontend development tooling* Frequent steps outside of an IDE, contributing to design concepts & inter-departmental design/development documentation* Worked in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. Focused on acting as an approachable liaison between creative and technology disciplines

Canby , Oregon, Us

* Operated as lead developer on approx. 50% of agency projects, utilizing—primarily—a full-stack of Ubuntu, nginx, MySQL, Node.js, Ruby / Ruby on Rails, PHP, React, custom JavaScript frontends & asset compilation pipelines, HTML5, SASS / CSS, and frontend animation libraries such as GreenSock JS.* Inherited and maintained legacy web & mobile projects, consulting with stakeholders and internal team to iterate on codebases as necessary. Took an active role in avoiding and recovering from previously incurred technical-debt.* Responsible for requirements gathering, synthesis, and communications regarding project scope within development department.* Devised and implemented multiple process-automation tools for use in production & development: application & server deployment scripts, responsive email precompilation & testing tools, and data migration tools via API integrations. * Collaborated with department leads in project management, visual design, user experience, copy, quality assurance, and creative direction. Enjoyed working directly with clients & stakeholders when possible.

* Managed freelance business, offering grassroots marketing, web design & development services, IT consulting and training to residents and businesses within the greater Puget Sound region.

Anacortes, Wa, Us

* Web applications programmer for medium-sized Web development company specializing in e-commerce, real estate, portfolio, and brochure projects. * Worked with clients and project-management to design and implement database-driven content management systems, shopping carts, administrative reporting tools, and other Web-based features as needed.* Secondary duties involved providing scripts for development and customer-support as well as aiding in administration of mission critical production servers in a medium-sized data-center.* Some technologies utilized included SVN, ColdFusion, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript & AJAX, XML, CSS, HTML.

Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Hr

* Extensive phone and on-site support for company product, DocuTrack. Involved travel to customer locations across the US, building and maintaining high performance SQL 2005 & Windows Server 2003 servers from the ground up. * Spearheaded efforts in standardization of documentation via an intranet wiki with colleagues.

Paris La Défense, Fr

* Managed signups, Verizon reselling, and technical support of company's DSL customer base; roughly 600 customers.* Conceptualized, built and managed multiple Intranet applications using a Linux/Apache/MySQL/Ruby & Rails stack; primarily task tracking, customer relations, and internal productivity tools. * Responsible for implementation of training tools in the way of an intranet wiki.