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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

- Worked on various client projects ranging from a new build of a applications to feature development on legacy client application.- Identified bottlenecks and bugs, and devised solutions to these problems.- Participated in our agile development process, including regular client interactions.- Helped maintained code quality & organization by developing automated tests

Vancouver

Implemented features and bug fixes on several in-house web applications. The main applications at Lighthouse Labs are built with Ruby on Rails, but a few are also running on a Node/Express stack.Key Responsibilities:- Implementation of features and bug fixes for Compass learning management app (Ruby on Rails), CRM and student record app (Ruby on Rails), various smaller marketing micro-sites like the 21 Day Coding Challenge (Node/Express), Interface Conference Website (Node/Express)- DevOps related tasks: deployments, DNS configuration, setup and management of all of the cloud bases instances that support our web applications. We use a combination of dokku, a docker based PaaS, for many of our applications hosted on Digital Ocean and Heroku for other applications.- Management of contractors required to meet our software development strategies, which are required from time to time.- Working with management to plan out a roadmap of Software Development all of the in house software applications.

Whistler, Bc

- Worked on their product team killing bugs and building new features on their main production application (Ruby on Rails app running at scale with a large monolithic codebase)- Adding to and maintaining the test suite using Rspec and Capybara- Worked on features that use background jobs, specifically, Sidekiq background job processing- Exposure to some DevOps tasks, including deployment using custom built tooling- Participated in extensive code review process using Git, Jira, and Target Process- Exposure to a number of third party APIs and gems.https://www.lighthouselabs.ca/blog/one-year-after-bootcamp-james-matsuba

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Developed features and content for Lighthouse's custom built CRM, front facing website (Ruby on Rails).- Worked with the Stripe API to automate + integrate the payments into the CRM from the production website.- Mentored new interns as they began their internship.- Deployed and maintained Discourse forums, mentoring students and administering technical interviews to prospective students.- Providing code reviews for all prep course submissions for the incoming Web Development cohorts.

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Took on various consulting roles in supply chain and web application projects.- One project was with a major oil and gas company where I consulted with new supply chain partner of theirs on how the special handling required for construction material.- Another project was with a small team that built a incremental sales program for a large national media company.

Meg Energy Christina Lake Project Phase 2B

IdleTime Inc. is a regionally based online marketplace for temporary staffing, small projects and freelance work.Empowering people to do more with their time.

Web Development

Learnt the Ruby on Rails stack, the Ruby Sinatra Framework, Javascript/Jquery, and HTML/CSS.

Education record

Bachelor Of Commerce, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Business Students AssociationWinner of VenturePrize Student Business Plan Competition Winner of the Winspear Cup.