* Manage team of engineers and QA to develop and test social marketing platform* Worked with product to determine priority/severity/business value of various pieces of work* Heavy refactorings of Rails applications to improve performance, reduce defects, improve maintenance* Implemented development cadence that involves pull requests, peer reviews, pairing, green test suite* Scripted Hubot to rotate pull request assignments across the team* Installed and configured Jenkins with scripting to run Ruby and Javascript linting and unit tests and comment on a Github pull request* Implemented and maintained data pipeline services in AWS to move data from PostgreSQL RDS to Redshift* Improved deployment strategy by implementing a tagged release with a preprod server* Secured sensitive information in repositories using the git-crypt GPG solution* Dockerized Rails application for portability and eventual scaling goals. This doubled as our Jenkins testbed to contain dependencies* Gave tech talks on various topics including Git, SQL, testing, Hubot* Upgraded large Rails application from 3.x to 4.0

* Planning calls with the business to t­shirt size potential work* Refinement of high level business requirements into actionable work by engineering sometimes including adding tasks, and decomposing stories* Estimations of engineering stories* Communication to stakeholders on progress of stories and any impediments, risks* 3 Amigos planning sessions to establish acceptance criteria* QA coordination and assistance with deliverables* Removing blockers from team including infrastructure issues, keeping backlog in order, reducing churn* Exploratory testing, and monitoring of finished code to find defects* Discuss and spike possible implementation* Coordinate development efforts

Ruby on Rails stack developmentjQuery, CSS, SQL, Redis

Ruby on Rails developer, consultant

I program in a myriad of languages, and environments. I have taken a liking to open source technologies because of their accessibility.

Troubleshooting, training, supervising the University helpdesk locations. Ruby on Rails, PHP development