- 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

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.

- 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

- 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.

- 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.

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