Brandon Shar Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

• Lead engineering efforts in Finance EngineeringStrategic Leadership
• Lead and architected a vendor transition for caterer payments to meet key business objectives
• Oversee all technical work on all aspects of financial systems including pay ins, pay outs, and tax implications
• Created and Maintained Quarterly Technical Roadmap presented to finance stakeholders including the CFOCollaboration & Mentorship
• Technical Leader for Financial Engineering domain
• Mentor and hold regular 1:1’s with Senior developers

Brooklyn, New York, US

Brooklyn, New York, US

• Tech: React, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Django, SQL, REST Apis, Handsontable, Rspec, InertiaJS, AWS Lambdas, DynamoDB
• Lead development for both team augmentation and client projects in various tech stacks
• Manage, develop, and maintain various full stack software applications for long-term clients
• Created and currently maintain the open source Ruby on Rails adapter for InertiaJS, anincreasingly popular pattern for full stack rails/react development
• Develop and strategize on internal company applications including Machine Learning/AIstrategies to coax new, valuable information from existing energy data
• Architect client projects across multiple languages, infrastructure, and dev methodologies

Boston, MA, US

Tech: React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, React Testing Library, Enzyme, PostgresLead and manage a team of 5 developers meeting frequently with Product Managers and Designers to determine team goals and initiatives

Boston, MA, US

• Tech: React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, React Testing Library, Enzyme, Postgres
• Architect and develop ezManage, a SaaS style offering from ezCater that allows caterers to manage their own catering business via ezCater’s platform
• Design GraphQL schemas within Ruby on Rails
• Refactor and architect React components alongside GraphQL fragments

Tampa, Florida, US

• Tech: Laravel (PHP 7), VueJS, Lumen, MySQL, Less, Pusher, Redis, AWS, PHPUnit, Dusk
• Architected and developed the entirety of the Rannko application in a Laravel based LEMP stack
• Designed Rannko’s relational MySQL database
• Architected and developed two Lumen micro-service APIs for handling review crawling andcustom short links
• Architected and developed a VueJS front end that consumes its entirely REST API-based backend
• Deployed the application on a Forge provisioned LEMP stack in AWS

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Tech: Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sass, Heroku, Rspec
• Led transition to using React components and API style endpoints
• Developed in and maintained a Ruby on Rails stack
• Regularly deployed via Heroku
• Led a team of four junior to mid-level developers on the “Growth” team in making andmonitoring changes to impact the join rate of new businesses
• Consulted with other senior developers on development best practices and new tech initiatives

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Tech: Flask (Python 3), SQLite, Ionic (Mobile), PyUnit
• Architected and developed Flask (Python 3) REST APIs to facilitate communication between robots and warehouse data centers
• Maintained and redesigned a procedural Python 2 script that was fundamental to the robot’s operation
• Mentored and reviewed other developers to assist in unifying the company’s multiple codebases
• Designed and developed an Ionic / Angular 2 based mobile application to allow human handlersto monitor the robot and improve underlying warehouse data
• Re-designed databases for better data storage and data analytics

Tampa, FL, US

Tampa, FL, US

• Tech: Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Lumen, MySQL, Algolia, VueJS, Ionic, Redis, PHPUnit
• Maintained and transitioned a Rails based PHP application in a legacy codebase
• Migrated a non-upgradeable PHP 5.3 application to a modern PHP 7 Laravel stack without anyfeature development downtime
• Developed a VueJS frontend consuming its own API-based backend
• Architected and led development on all major tech initiatives
• Maintained and developed a Ruby on Rails application to serve a separate public-facing mobileapplication

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Developed applications and websites from conception to launch for a variety of small clients using MVC based PHP (Symfony 2), Javascript / jQuery, and HTML/CSS

Tampa, Florida, US

Developed and maintained internal and external PHP applications, both modern (PHP 5+) and legacy (PHP 4)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy