Rob Sheldon Email & Phone Number

Eugene, Or, Us

Westerville, Ohio, Us

Short-term contract position. The client was migrating 6,500+ individual dev projects into a monorepo, simultaneously migrating from a legacy infrastructure to kubernetes, and working out a new development process for their team.• Improved deployment time by 85%• Developed a modern PHP configuration for their infrastructure• Numerous miscellaneous fixes, troubleshooting, and guidance for PHP, Apache, and development process* Test Double is primarily a Ruby consultancy so I learned enough Ruby in a week to pass their technical interview process :-)Tech: kubernetes, docker, linux (debian), php, datadog, wordpress

San Francisco, California, Us

Worked with a small team maintaining a large PHP codebase that manages approximately 300 petabytes of data and metadata.Developed a new spam filtering system for user reviews (and potentially other site features) with an elegant scoring algorithm, url detection/decomposition/filtering, and a simple admin interface following standard restful/json practices.Occasionally provided expertise on security topics involving XSS, exploited vulnerabilities, and nginx configuration.

Nevada City, California, Us

• Started as a software consultant and gradually assumed a technical lead role;• Search for, interview, evaluate, and hire developers for an international team;• Onboard new hires and began building standard dev team processes and culture;• Scope and estimated software projects of varying complexity;• Lead the adoption of appropriate tooling for credential management and documentation;• Reorganize some of the team's processes to help clarify roles and responsibilities;• I am frequently a single resource for technical expertise in areas like security, software architecture, DNS, and systems administration;• Resolve misunderstandings of technical matters with clients using simple language;• Communicate frequently with many clients while also juggling development tasks (bug fixing, feature updates, restructuring codebases).Tech: php, javascript, linux, wpengine, managewp, composer, cloudflare

• Manage entire project lifecycles from initial call to launch and maintenance; • Assist other developers with integrations or matters outside their specialty; • Rescue troubled projects, clean up and modernize codebases; • Overhaul credential storage, hosting infrastructure, monitoring, and documentation; • Build API clients in PHP and interactive frontends in modern Javascript; • And provide technical expertise for code reviews, difficult integrations, DNS riddles, hosting infrastructure, and everything else an agency might encounter.

Grass Valley, Ca, Us

• Maintained multiple PHP-based codebases, including WordPress, Magento, and custom builds;• Built an application for student attendance reporting with Docusign integration for a network of charter schools;• Linux systems administration for hosted applications;• Developed an efficient linear regression in MySQL for a big dataset of network activity for abuse prediction;• Investigated a security incident for a state site and produced a comprehensive report with best-practice recommendations;• Interviewed and hired a developer;• Presented on the topic of password security at a company-wide week-long developer program, and used an executive's password from one of my breach databases as the example for the dangers of password reuse;• Pitched transitioning the company's infrastructure from bare metal in a data center to DigitalOcean, saving them most of my salary in monthly costs while improving overall uptime;• Worked with the team to adopt modern PHP standards and modernize codebases;• Developed expertise in git and became the go-to resource for untangling hairy git messes.

• Built a Managed Services Provider and IT consultancy from one client to hundreds of clients across three counties ranging from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills, employing a few techs.• Mostly focused on the SMB niche, providing a broad spectrum of services to labs, medical offices, and myriad other organizations, including non-profits like Habitat for Humanity and the Friendship Club.• Built a secure network for a DoE-funded laboratory that successfully passed on-site inspection by federal representatives.• Built small and large software projects ranging from minor infrastructure glue up to a slick desktop-like replacement for a large FoxPro application.• Reverse-engineered a proprietary database format for a data recovery.• Provided email and web hosting services with nearly flawless uptime and no security breaches.