Sheldon Maloff Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Financial Wellness that works.Wages On-Demand and Financial Education for happier, healthier, and more productive employees. ZayZoon allows employees to instantly access their earned wages on-demand. It's a voluntary benefit that reduces financial stress related to cash flow shortfall between paychecks. Improve retention, increase productivity and benefit from a more engaged workforce.

Calgary, Canada Area

Dissolve sells stock videos and photos to the creative industry, sourced from hundreds of independent contributors. • Learning and evaluating new technologies; apply to business operations• Repeatable server configuration with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Chef• Implemented infrastructure monitoring using Monit, Airbrake, and Kibana with notifications via Slack channels and email• Securing Ubuntu Linux using SSH and UFW• Extensive Bash scripting to automate repeatable processes• Implement CI/CD using Jenkins• Extensive Nginx web server configuration for high security and high availability using location blocks, rate limiting, reverse proxying to an application server, round robin load balancing and automatic failover, server side includes to assemble web pages from multiple sources and inline content rewriting• High availability PostgreSQL database configuration using hot-standby streaming replication• Install and secure Elasticsearch; design search algorithms using custom keyword analysis, industry-specific controlled vocabularies, and specialized aggregations and scoring curves• Caching web pages and fragments using Redis; delivery and security using AWS CloudFront and AWS WAF• Securing petabytes of assets on AWS S3 with AWS IAM• Analyze load testing and site metrics and provide advice to developers on how to improve code performance by using caching, reducing AJAX payload size, and optimizing SQL queries• Documenting infrastructure, development processes, and coding style guides for team members• Perform ROI analysis; help define SR/ED claims• Architect ReSTful APIs and integration of third-party APIs• Created one fully configured Ubuntu virtual machine per repo with a slice of production data, reducing the time to get a developer up and running from days to minutes.• Collaboration during feature development with other teams• Passionate full stack developer

Calgary, Canada Area

Renoworks produces desktop and web software for the home renovation industry. • In charge of developing a cross-browser platform for redesigning your home before committing money to a renovation: customers upload a photo of their home, mask walls, doors and roof and then apply vendor product samples to those masks to see the house transformed. • Architect and design application, develop Javascript code to do client-side image masking (with holes and islands).• Write deployment scripts to automate manual processes.🔌 Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, SVG, IIS, server-side rendering components, AWS EC2

Calgary, Alberta

Corbis and the Veer brand sold stock photography and typography to the design industry. (Work at Veer that I'm most proud of are listed as separate Projects further down this page.)• Contributed code to both the customer-facing eCommerce site and the Community-facing site.• Architect and implement maintainable, production-ready, cross-browser, client-side code and supporting server-side endpoints.• Re-architect search endpoints to provide new client search functionality.• Collaborate with Marketing, Business Development and other teams to prepare announcements and press release strategy for new features.• Work closely with Creative to ensure site UI and new features represent Veer brand.• Quickly learn managed C++ to develop new features.• Created production deployment scripts and actively participated in quarterly site releases.• Learn and reimplement the build system using Team Foundation Server.• Perform load testing of new features to determine server requirements.• Perform hiring interviews and mentor teammates.• Author site architecture documentation.• Manage development and testing teams in Beijing and India.🔌 C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, IIS, managed and unmanaged C++, C, D-Type Rendering Library, VS 2008 Load Test, TFS, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Nginx, Memcached

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Providing personalized software consulting services to companies in need.5 x 5 Software:• Subcontractor to produce customized software using C#, ASP.NET, Sharepoint and SQL Server.St. Mary's University:• Diagnose problems with the student reservation system and present solutions to university directors.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Multilingual, online magazine about becoming a successful entrepreneur.• Manage client requirements, expectations, and budget.• Lead developer coordinating a remote, three-person, team.• Implement e-commerce through a merchant gateway for member subscriptions and renewals.🔌 C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

WebPeep.NET Team• Architect and develop PeepFarm: a distributed, load-balanced, collection of servers running the COM-based Peep desktop application as a back-end calculation engine for a next generation web interface.• Implement WebPeep UI running on Internet Explorer.• Present entertaining talk about PeepFarm architecture at Merak Software Developer Conference.Project Economics Team• Redesign desktop PetroDesk application reports using XML and XSLT making them look more professional.Marketing Team• Write a Content Management System in ColdFusion allowing the Marketing team to manage the Merak website. • Create animated eCards using Flash to introduce the Schlumberger Technology Centre concept to Merak employees.🔌 C#, MSMQ, JavaScript, HTML

Revolutionary web site bringing together Agencies, Studios and Radio Stations in the electronic transfer of radio spots as MP3 & print as PDF in an industry dependent on magnetic-tape and courier delivery.• Architect in a distributed team consisting of Creative, Network Infrastructure and Business Visionary• Develop, deploy and maintain server codeTechnologies: Visual Basic, HTML

Employee sub-contracted to implement custom built desktop or web applications as an individual or part of a team. Using technology of the era, I created:• Time Sheet Tracking systems• Distributed Energy Trading systems• Livestock Management systems (yes, cow tracking)• Computer Assisted Training systems• Seismic Bidding and Budgeting systems• Natural Gas Marketing systems• Gas Pipeline Simulation systemsAs a Certified Microsoft Trainer, co-hosted Microsoft Developer Days '98 and co-presented Windows NT operating system as a cross-Canada traveling road show.

Member of a team working on the hospital's Materials Management system running on Tandem (now Hewlett-Packard) Nonstop computing platform.