Jon Armstrong Email & Phone Number

Boone, Nc, Us

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Blacksburg, Va

Full stack engineer developing cloud-based business intelligence platform in Django and React.

Blacksburg, Va

Senior member of a cross-functional team responsible for development, maintenance, testing, and deployment of a broad array of services including Rackspace Webmail, an email and collaboration suite, as well as internal support tools and provisioning APIs.- Increased webmail from 150,000 to 500,000 daily active users, while mail platform grew from 2 million to over 4 million mailboxes.- Improved speed, reliability, and frequency of deployments by greatly increasing test coverage and… Show more Senior member of a cross-functional team responsible for development, maintenance, testing, and deployment of a broad array of services including Rackspace Webmail, an email and collaboration suite, as well as internal support tools and provisioning APIs.- Increased webmail from 150,000 to 500,000 daily active users, while mail platform grew from 2 million to over 4 million mailboxes.- Improved speed, reliability, and frequency of deployments by greatly increasing test coverage and automating deployments.- Added performance monitoring and metrics.- Refactored, decoupled, and scaled complex legacy systems with minimal disruption.- Provided code reviews and mentoring for other team members.Technologies: Python (Flask, Celery), PHP, MySQL, Redis, NodeJS, Javascript, AngularJS, Java, Chef, Ansible, CentOS, Jenkins, Docker, GrafanaProjects include:- Integrated Open Xchange Office Suite with Webmail to provide collaborative document editing and online file storage.- Developed provisioning APIs to proxy requests to legacy systems, allowing future products to be added more efficiently with less impact to external services.- Rebuilt dev environment using Docker to replace manually configured environment. Reduced time to spin up a new environment from hours to minutes.- Worked with backend team to replace legacy event system. Built proxy and new UI in AngularJS. Query time reduced from minutes to near real time.- Reduced support cost by developing Python API to allow Webmail users to securely reset their passwords, leveraging Twilio SMS service.- Deployed and integrated XMPP chat server with Webmail. Developed Java auth plugin allowing sessions to be shared with chat system. Created UI for Webmail which displays contacts and current chats.- Built Email Attachments API in NodeJS which streams attachment data from IMAP, greatly improving performance.- Developed REST APIs for Webmail to support an ActiveSync subscription add-on and customer integrations. Show less

Eugene, Oregon Area

Worked across multiple teams during design and development of APT, Yahoo!'s next generation ad management platform. Primary contributions were to the UI Framework which provided the foundation for APT applications. Additional responsibilities included providing documentation and support for team members using framework components.Primary technologies: Java (JSP, Struts, Spring, JUnit), Javascript (YUI).- Contributed to development of Data Grid component used throughout the UI… Show more Worked across multiple teams during design and development of APT, Yahoo!'s next generation ad management platform. Primary contributions were to the UI Framework which provided the foundation for APT applications. Additional responsibilities included providing documentation and support for team members using framework components.Primary technologies: Java (JSP, Struts, Spring, JUnit), Javascript (YUI).- Contributed to development of Data Grid component used throughout the UI. Responsible for developing and implementing configuration API which defined queries and simple filtering across multiple data sets.- Extended navigation to add cached history, and cross-browser compatible layout and truncation.Created Javascript overlays, Struts actions, and support classes for global search and alerts. Translated user queries into formats supported by backend APIs. Provided formatting, filtering, and pagination of results.- Implemented configurable JSP tags for internationalized contact fields, providing support for locale-specific layouts, field labels, regions, validation, and error messages. Show less

Eugene, Oregon Area

Improved and extended Direct Media Exchange web control panel, allowing small website publishers to increase advertising revenue from their sites. Provided simplified interface to Right Media ad exchange to manage ad networks, upload creatives, and view statistics and reports.Primary technologies: PHP, Zend Framework MVC, MySQL, Javascript (YUI).- Worked with a small team of developers to create a new administrative interface for managing Right Media clients. Responsible for… Show more Improved and extended Direct Media Exchange web control panel, allowing small website publishers to increase advertising revenue from their sites. Provided simplified interface to Right Media ad exchange to manage ad networks, upload creatives, and view statistics and reports.Primary technologies: PHP, Zend Framework MVC, MySQL, Javascript (YUI).- Worked with a small team of developers to create a new administrative interface for managing Right Media clients. Responsible for implementing a dynamic, table-based tool in YUI for managing contract details.- Created a single-page, multi-screen tool for uploading and previewing creatives. Added inputs and Javascript logic to support various types of creatives, while allowing preview of ads before they were added to the live exchange.- Researched and implemented performance enhancements for UI including: image sprites, caching static content, gzip compression, and bundling Javascript files to reduce requests.- Developed RSS feeds for reports and forum topics to allow users to keep track of their account data and save reports with filtering criteria. Show less

Eugene, Oregon Area

Worked with a small, cross-functional team responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, operations, and support of web-based e-commerce software and email list management suite.Primary technologies: PHP, MySQL.- Integrated with many third-party service APIs, including shipping companies and payment gateways.Worked with customers to develop custom deployments, integrations, and new features.- Built administrative tools and reports to allow administrators to… Show more Worked with a small, cross-functional team responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, operations, and support of web-based e-commerce software and email list management suite.Primary technologies: PHP, MySQL.- Integrated with many third-party service APIs, including shipping companies and payment gateways.Worked with customers to develop custom deployments, integrations, and new features.- Built administrative tools and reports to allow administrators to track inventory, customers, sales, and store traffic.- Developed APIs to allow for integration with other applications. Show less

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