Chris Rogus Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Co-founder. Planning + building backend, frontend, infrastructure, cost reduction, performance tracking, etc working on a SaaS startup. Rust back and front (axum, wasm: yew/dioxus) SPA running on AWS. The service manages client files and tracks process flow for the niche audience of film/tv/commercial post production asset distribution.

Managing on set experience at venues for talent, guests, and crew during filming, then legal, sales, rights, etc afterwards to get our unscripted interview series onto Tubi: https://www.beverageswithbevin.com/

New York, New York, US

• Responsible for a division of teams, engineers and eng managers, working with product managers
• Delivering business impacting outcomes across my org, coordinating process, coaching managers
• Platform infrastructure, quality + test tooling, deployment pipelines, data lake / data warehouses, APIs and cloud based ingestion, reporting UIs, lots of supporting internal engineering teams, and also building.
• Directly responsible for supporting transition to service oriented architecture / microservices / decomposing the monolith
• Supported org wide processes: internship program, lunch and learn program, organizer and MC for hack days, interviewer training, process, and question writing, coordination with recruiting, onboarding checklist, wrote.
• Personally developed plans for major org wide technical initiatives: frontend React migration PoC, event serialization rewrite PoC, SDK security proposal and planning, various manager tools for interviewing, reviews, etc

Business planning, relationship management, fiscal responsibilities, wrangling the talent, making hard decisions, saying "yes" and "no" a lot.Award winning web series and music videos: https://www.adultish.tv/ -- LA web fest: Best Ensemble, NYC web fest: Best Ensemble, Seoul web fest: Best Web Series, Best Actress

New York, New York, US

• Managed various teams on customer facing product development as well as backend external vendor integrations such as ERP and PCI, while developing new talent and guiding my team in growing on their paths through.
• Developed new features in Ruby on Rails + React app on Heroku, leveraging PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka
• Engineering lead for recruiting efforts, going to events, reviewing thousands of resumes, evaluating takehome tests, conducting phone screens, capping the in person interview process, interviewing references and.
• Significant thought leadership on devops perspective in development efforts, as well as advocating, presenting business case, and enhancing internal tools to reduce dev workload to support customer support, finance and.
• Plated acquired by second largest grocery store chain in North America – featured in a Shark Tank episode

New York City, US

• Architected and built AWS based infrastructure for live video streaming and social engagement platform
• Managed remote iOS dev team with their technical challenges and integrations with backend resources

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Designed and developed C# applications used for successful Wall St options market making / trading
• Throughout various projects and team changes, served as tech lead and performed requirements gathering with business stakeholders, traders and QA/support to develop useful tools for immediate needs and longterm goals
• Led transition from Perforce to git, migrating repositories as well as defining process and tools, training rest of devs
• Desktop GUI applications in WPF and WinForms for the traders and support staff, with clear visualizations and cleanly organized management tools of backend data and processes for fast responses to opportunities and.
• Maintained and migrated legacy VB.NET monolothic GUI application into service oriented architecture as well as more modular GUI components for smooth transition from known experience to more easily maintained modern code
• Distributed server/service application architecture connecting to various exchange APIs and other internal services, leveraging ZeroMQ and many databases: MS SQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch via Logstash with Kibana (ELK)

Los Angeles, California, US

• Designed and implemented server code/infrastructure using Wowza, PHP/MySQL, Rackspace, EC2 and core enduser code/API in AS3 and Javascript for collection, live admin processing and wide scale distribution via CDNs of.
• Used in numerous high profile live events such as NY Fashion Week, the Grammys, the Oscars and many others

• Numerous custom applications for a wide variety of clients covering all the skills listed above and more, e.g.
• Built website for users to upload, manage and view videos with ads, chatting, ratings, etc (Youtube + Hulu, sort of)
• Built backend server infrastructure and API for separately built Flash GUI to manage and participate in group meetings/events/classes with live video, chatting, screensharing, whiteboarding, file sharing and more
• Mobile apps on Android, iOS and Blackberry for video recording and playback, populated and shared via web services
• Sales rep, project manager, developer and everything all in one – focused on providing real business value via dev

• Architect and lead developer of custom PHP/MySQL e-commerce content management system (CMS) software
• Technical direction and planning, managing priorities based on upcoming sales opportunities, and distributing work

• Numerous PHP/MySQL driven web apps with dynamic frontends, Java applets, Linux scripting, etc
• Significant user interface planning, working with graphic designers to smoothly integrate front- and back-end

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Developed general purpose, real-time 3D physics engine in Squeak (Smalltalk) for Open Croquet project
• Researched numerous algorithms and data structures for complete yet efficient physics, working directly with advanced IBM researchers and David A. Smith, creator of the first 3D game ever, "The Colony"

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Web services and Java portlets to remotely manage IBM middleware, IBM researcher mentors, one patent awarded

• Developed widely hailed “must-have” utility to support 3D model makers for Quake 3 using Win32 API in MSVC++

Bs, Mathematics, Cognitive Science, International Studies, Computer Science

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