Aaron H. Email & Phone Number

Ithaca, NY, US

I provide technical expertise, do some web application development, write content (first book published in late 2022!), and do some game design for the tabletop role-playing game _STILLFLEET_.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Backend engineering (Ruby on Rails) with an emphasis on feature enhancements, mentorship of juniors, performance optimizations, error correction in a mid-level volume (tens-of-millions of records for some tables) environment.

Chantilly, Virginia, US

I work on a small (~15) team of developers on a portfolio of projects that are primarily Rails based with some ***** front-end code. Most work is feature development with the occasional bugfix. We have a pretty regular practice of refactoring technical debt where possible. I've also done some workflow analysis to identify potential inefficiencies, as well.

Diaperbase is an open-source multi-tenant inventory-management application to facilitate DiaperBanks (think "food banks" but for sanitary supplies). After nearly 3 years of development, we went into Production on 2 November, 2018, and are actively maintaining the application. As the vast majority of DiaperBanks are volunteer-driven, the software is offered.

Columbus, Ohio, US

This position was ended for COVID-19 related reasons.I worked on an integrations team to bring on new companies, creating custom instances of our application for Insurance companies who wanted to retain our services. My time in this position was sadly brief, but while there I did get to work on some optimizations that reduced the memory footprint of a.

For this role I was on the Customer Experience team, specifically for customer acquisitions (getting people to sign up for the service).Our workflow was PM driven on biweekly sprints with a heavy focus on feature development pushing forwards. PMs provided retrospective insight via A/B tests and metric analysis to help us identify whether or not features.

Reston, Virginia, US

Developed Ruby on Rails software for USCIS. This work included peer reviews, mentorship, lots of refactoring, software design, writing tests, discovery and triaging work, being "that guy" when my co-workers suggested things I disagreed with. Technology was primarily Ruby on Rails (backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, with a splash of Oracle).

Ithaca, NY, US

Working in a small team (< 10) on both maintenance of existing web applications (Rails / PHP) and development of new applications, all developed on a LAPP stack on an Ubuntu-server.Version control was done through Perforce and Git. Oracle & PostgreSQL for databases.Apps are either private intranet applications to facilitate content management.

Richmond, IN, US

Maintaining iue.edu, a website with over 5,000 pages of content. I manage all the templating (Dreamweaver), CSS, and accessible HTML. I code applications in PHP/AJAX/JavaScript, and occasionally in C#.NET. I also maintain the databases (MySQL and T-SQL), draw data from the centralized student records database (Oracle). I participated in steering and.

Richmond, IN, US

Maintained 200 computers on the municipal WAN. Served as resident linux administrator (Debian flavor) for both mailserver and webserver. Wrote BASH scripts, configured SpamAssassin and reduced the City's SPAM intake by 10-fold through scripted nightly SA training.Re-wrote the city's website using a hand-written DB back-end with page editor; Features.

Bachelors, Natural Science & Mathematics

Ruby & Ruby On Rails

A.S., Accounting

Incomplete, Commercial Photography