Benjamin Nelson Email & Phone Number

Georgetown, TX, US

• Rails full-stack drug book application
• Transition code base to new partner while maintaining legacy customers
• Moving deployment from Capistrano/EC2 to AWS ECS with Fargate
• On AI team that builds various products using OpenAI

• Develop analytics using DynamoDB
• Upgrading Rails to version 7
• Oversee the product data feed API integrations

• Oversee all development operations for the OnceThere.com platform.
• Rewrote and maintain four Ruby-on-Rails applications
• Rewrote all clients in React
• Capistrano and Chef for Deployment
• Maintained two legacy laravel apps
• Sinatra API

Austin, Texas Area

• MaxPoint is the 9th fastest growing technology company in the world. They do hyperlocal advertising (think big-data) by targeting consumers in specific neighborhoods.
• Rewrote all deployment code for Capistrano
• Created Chef recipes for automatic deployment to European datacenters
• Created a gem for their CMS
• Technologies used: Rails / API, Chef, Capistrano, Gem creation, MongoDB, postgres, AngularJS

• Keet is a healthcare companion and EHR app for physical therapy offices.
• Consulting on code base, technologies, hosting providers, HIPAA, and development processes

• I work on various websites such as completebook.com, mlrwm.com, and texasoutside.com.
• Implemented friendly_id, migrating complebook off of MongoDB to MySQL, and lots of JS work
• Technologies used: PHP, MySQL

• KloudNation is a development firm in Richardson, Texas that was hired by FlyingTee to write an app for their golfing stores.
• Writing API in RoR for their Microsoft client to use
• Technologies used: Rails / API, Heroku, MongoDB, MySQL, Sidekiq

• Somnio is a B2B Digital Marketing Agency that hired me to build a simple JavaScript search engine for their proof-of-concept scientific whitepaper product for IBM.
• Created a JavaScript search engine
• Technologies used: JavaScript, JQuery

• FastFan was a music industry startup whose goal was to allow consumers to market independent music and make profits off of their actions.
• Was hired to overhaul their system of legacy PHP
• Python coding for ETL scripts
• Moved entire codebase to RoR and AngularJS in three months and deployed on all platforms
• Wrote many rake tasks and PHP scripts to pull hundreds of millions of records from 3rd party APIs into ElasticSearch and MySQL
• Technologies used: Rails / API, Heroku, Python, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, AngularJS, PHP

• Parallel Solutions was a company I created that built a big-data enterprise platform. $100,000 of capital was injected into our software business from profits made on our military contracts. We had 45 customers in West.
• Oversaw five developers and three executives
• Learned and implemented MongoDB after MySQL became too hard to manage (and too slow)
• Administed ten Ubuntu servers on both Rackspace and Amazon
• Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Ubuntu

• Taught Seven Introductory Chemistry Courses and Labs.
• Performed Theoretical Mathematics Research on Dr. Manheim's Alternatives to Einstein's Field Equations with Maple.

• Nelkor was a mechanical engineering and machine shop that supplied custom machined products the oil industry in West Texas.
• Designed various parts and also machined those parts.

• Researched cancer and tissue rejection under the guidance of Dr. Charles Faust, Associate Dean of Cell Biology and Biochemistry Department.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Biological Chemistry W/ Minors In Biology And Mathematics

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