Justin H. Email & Phone Number

United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Working across all teams to identify, solidify, and evangelize patterns
• Goal to be a force multiplier, finding ways for teams to work more efficiently through patterns, tools, standards, so teams can work on business problems and not yak shaving
• Set up a pattern for RFCs, establishing 'community' developed best practices and standards that all teams can utilize and reference. This includes a Well Architected Framework, adapting AWS Well Architected with Ibotta.
• Design and ideation of technical roadmap and specific projects
• Close working relationship with engineering managers, product management, and other company leaders to understand business problems and help collaborate on solutions
• Technical mentorship directly with engineers, and as documentation and presentations

Denver, CO

• Principal architecture and implementation of the backend server code and infrastructure from the first lines of code in coordination with a small team, through working with many teams coordinating feature development.
• Involved in many, many areas of development throughout the growth of the products feature set and user base. Including a substantial number of user-facing features such as bonuses, activity feed, receipt capture and.
• Helped to craft and implement architectural choices in evolving a monolithic application to microservices, event driven architectures, and distributed systems
• Specializing in back-end technologies: Ruby, Rails, Node, TypeScript
• Primary implementer of the majorty of original and continuing infrastructure on AWS: EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, Chef, Docker

Denver, CO

• Architect of many aspects of a complete rewrite of the Photobucket main site codebase
• Architect and lead implementor of realtime activity stream (Java, Kestrel, Camel, Hbase, Spring)
• Lead architect and sole implementor of hosting platform used by Twitter Photos (PHP, nginx, lua)
• Developed the Photobucket app for Windows Phone 7 (C#, Sliverlight)
• Architect and implementer on a number of user-facing features including album privacy, tagging, album layout, asynchronous messaging and notifications and the REST API using OAuth.
• Deep usage of PHP5 OO, MVC patterns, OO Javascript (Prototype and JQuery), some advanced CSS/DHTML layout.

Denver, CO

• Lead programmer and project architect, bringing together contributions from other team members. Developed PHP/MySQL code enhancing phpBB and in custom applications, HTML, CSS and JavaScript used extensively.
• Server administrator for our dedicated co-located server running FreeBSD, Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, CPanel, BIND DNS, exim mail.
• Strong interaction with the community and production companies made these sites successful.
• Sites include: VanguardLive.com, EQII.com, GameWatchers.Net. Also contract work for small projects as requested.

Boulder, CO

• Architected new site framework based on PHP objects and classes, using PEAR packages, interfacing stored procedures and normalized data structures. Maintained code (PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript) for site and content.
• Migrated from problematic mixed MySQL/MSSQL data and PHP/ASP code to consistent PHP/MSSQL for customer data. Learned intricacies of dealing with MSSQL and FreeBSD/PHP. Assisted in design and implementation of multiple.
• Helped in decision making for purchase of enterprise-class content management.

Boulder, CO

• Designed and implemented consistent server architecture for easy replacement and redundancy, security and SOX/PCI compliance measures, and new data center spaces with minimal downtime. Included hardening of FreeBSD.
• Implemented monitoring and reporting for various services. Implemented source control repositories, development/testing environments, ticketing and Wiki system (Horde).
• Led development on a number of initiatives including strong user session tracking for metrics reporting and response throttling to combat release-day utilization spikes.
• Worked across the company to handle bug reports and change requests, and troubleshoot problems. Maintained front end HTML, CSS and Javascript as well as back end PHP and ASP code. Wrote and executed SQL for business.

Denver, CO

• Gained experience with Visual Basic (COM, VBA), ASP, XML/XSL, IIS and MS SQL. Used HTML, CSS and JavaScript extensively.
• Lead development in project for the Alaska Department of Transportation creating a remote data entry system for field surveying in Microsoft Access.
• Helped to maintain internal and external website applications, as well as brainstorm concepts for new applications such as a document management system. Researched and implemented Microsoft Sharepoint Server for the.

Denver, CO

• Environment included Windows NT 3.51, 4 and 2000 Workstation and Server, Windows 95/98, and Novell file and print servers, along with various printers, copiers, network switches and routers.
• Contributed opinion and expertise to the constant upgrade, maintenance and expansion of the network and workstations.
• Strove to create a customer service environment where users were comfortable with the support staff, and made sure tasks were completed to a quality beyond the users’ expectations. Noted for ability to train users on.