James Koppen Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Va, Us

Working on application database integrations for Loyalty Central Engineering.

Upgraded a custom e-commerce site to use PHP 8 and migrated the site to Google Cloud Compute, cutting hosting costs by 75%.Rewrote a family media archive using React and Remix hosted on Cloudflare Pages, R2, and D1.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

- Containerized a data science workload to enable cloud-based automation with Docker, Azure Container Registry and Azure Container Instances.- Rewrote and migrated the e-commerce website legacy login system to use an RBAC system.- Oversaw website redesign and migration from midlandmetal.com to midlandindustries.com- Coordinated migration of product search data to Elasticsearch and managed VueJS search interface project.- Managed transition of website and MySQL database from Rackspace to Azure.- Administered Ubuntu servers and web application deployments.- Led transition to Catsy Product Information Management (PIM) system and integration with website via API with Redis caching of responses.- Directed rewrite of several customer-facing tools (upload order, bin labels generation, customer part upload) to become background processes.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

- Refactored an in-house legacy PHP e-commerce codebase into a PHP7 class-based structure.- Set up Elasticsearch for application logging and created Kibana dashboards for stakeholders.- Established queue and worker system with beanstalk and supervisor to handle long running tasks like price file generation.- Used Redis to cache pricing and avoid repeated slow API calls.- Moved website from shared hosting to Rackspace VPS.- Managed Ubuntu VPS and configured nginx web server and PHP-FPM.- Created a new customer application process using Django and uWSGI.- Integrated with 3rd party email marketing vendor Emfluence.- Designed and executed database migrations and syncs to pull more data from ERP to web database.

-Helped a client write Bash scripts to build a custom LAMP server stack and a mail server, as well as a script for batch mailings. Wrote a prototype for a PHP web application to accept edits to market letter listings.- Redesigned three sites for a construction firm, using Zurb Foundation.- Built a family media archive site with management features for authenticated family members. Full stack: Ubuntu 14 VPS, nginx HTTP server, SQLite database, uWSGI application server, Python micro-framework Flask, and Zurb Foundation HTML5 framework on the front-end. Deployed with Ansible and shell scripts.- Created a secure file server for a financial information provider. Wrote Bash scripts to build OpenResty, a distribution of the nginx HTTP server scriptable with Lua. Wrote Lua to perform HTTP Basic authentication against a SQL database, with passwords stored and verified using bcrypt.- Wrote a single-page Javascript application to match financial transaction data in CSV format from Authorize.net with internal company records. Wrote a PHP API to match transactions and convert data to Excel format.- Consulted for various website redesigns and development.

- Created multiple HTML/Javascript interfaces for form submission to a PHP API written in the MVC style, which connected to MySQL databases. - Worked with call center managers to create an HTML interface with a PHP/MySQL backend for calculating and displaying call center statistics.- Created a Midland Industrial mobile site.- Collaborated on development of RentMyInstrument.com for initial launch in August 2010. Performed continuing development and maintenance to make RMI site more user-friendly.- Created private PHP/MySQL apps for RMI order fulfillment tracking and customer account management- Provided customer, affiliate, and in-house support in-person and by email and phone.

Created web interfaces with HTML and PHP for entering experiment data into a MySQLdatabase.

- Wrote a Python screen-scraper to collect prospective customer information from an industry directory site- Wrote a Python script to ease database migration between enterprise software solutions.- Provided in-house technical support.- Developed SolarGadgetStore.com, using a custom AJAX shopping cart based on ZenCart.

B.A, Humanities; Ancient Greek, Philosophy, And English

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