Rob Gant Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

‬‭ Joining as their first full time engineer I converted a contractor-built AngularJS Firebase‬‭ application to modern Angular with TypeScript. Introduced robust documentation, coding,‬‭ and unit testing standards using strict linting and minimum 85% unit test coverage. Worked‬‭ to transition the product from consumer focused to an employer financial wellness benefit.‬‭ Built a scalable infrastructure as code system using Terraform to ensure that both AWS‬‭ based front-end and GCP Firebase back-ends were scalable and manageable by a small‬‭ team. Additionally I lead the initiative to meet SOC 2 compliance and periodic security‬‭ testing necessary for growth in the industry. Thanks to my early preparation the process was‬‭ able to be completed without issue during the first six month audit. I provided senior staff‬‭ with reports and repeatable analysis tools to create presentations for the board of investors‬‭ quarterly meetings.‬‭ I managed development team hiring to grow the team to six software engineers over the‬‭ course of 3 years. Provided mentoring and training for three junior engineers and assisted‬‭ two senior engineers with developing processes for a fast paced and growing team.‬

Implemented tools for NSF and NHS grant research projects. I developed a Ruby on Rails based tool that allows researchers to filter Sober Grid users to produce an anonymized cohort for study and targeting. These tools can also be used by the Sober Grid team to target our users for specific content to help prevent relapse. I also setup a Python Anaconda Docker container that our data scientist uses to develop predictive analytics to help develop intervention methods to keep our users sober.

Implemented Angular 4 web app using Angular/cli backed by a python API framework using role-based access control for a multi-tenancy database design.

Boston, Ma, Us

My first project was to design and implement an API in Python with automated test coverage. Using the JSONAPI spec to define the API envelope, I designed the API and documented it using the OpenAPI Specification (Swagger). For the stack I used Docker for scalability and Python Flask for rapid development with decent performance. Pytest and Pylint ensured that the code was tested and well formed. As another major component in this project, I designed a database modeled after the API using Python SQLAlchemy and PyMySQL. I migrated the existing on premise database to a new database hosted in Amazon Relational Database Service for improved scalability and performance.After completing the API upgrade, our focus moved to updating the AngularJS front end. I migrated the on premise website hosting to Amazon S3 and CloudFront. This allowed us to retire the old Apache PHP servers and avoid major IT overhead for the company. In addition, performance was significantly improved with the new CDN. Continuing my efforts to modernize the tools used, I introduced eslint tools that ensured strict code standards. This identified and prevented several JavaScript coding errors. * Added Sphinx compatible documentation to Python and Javascript.* Documented development, build, and deploy processes for the entire stack.* Added cache busting of the asset files to the build process.* Converted PHP API a Python 3 API stack with test coverage for exposed surfaces.* Designed MySQL database to include referential integrity and normalization.* Corrected integrity issues and then migrated existing database to the new design.* Migrated the entire application from Linux VMs to AWS Cloud.* Improved the AngularJS 1 application to conform to the current conventions in preparation for AngularJS 2.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

My goal was to modernize the codebase by developing a method to safely upgrade outdated versions of MongodDB, Python, and other tools.My first project was to upgrade MongodDB before the provider dropped support for the version in use. I conducted research and built tools to resolve differences between the versions. After upgrading the databases for non-production systems, I built tools to gather and analyze logs from multiple servers to identify areas where problems were occurring and socialize them with my teammates.Python upgrades are predicated on a solid testing system. I added automated testing into each of my projects. This included building a virtual environment where the Python code could be run locally using fixed versions of the packages to ensure reproducible results. * Documented pylint standards.* Built testing suite using py.test. * Upgraded MongoDB from 2.4 to 2.6

As this small startup's primary developer I was responsible for the entire technology stack. I learned and documented the numerous processes used to make the stack robust and self sustaining.I was also responsible for expanding the API to support our Android, iOS, and web apps. As the API evolved I introduced RESTful concepts to make the API more robust.I was also responsible for maintaining a rapid pace in adding new features to the web app and migrating the web structure to follow the recommended best practices for modern modular designed websites.

Auburndale, Massachusetts, Us

I transitioned to a product management role at SiteSpect as the company expanded. My in depth knowledge of the product and the clients allowed me to assist the development team in making the product less technical and more friendly while adding new features. As part of the growing PM team I managed a complete redesign of the user interface focusing on key user personas and a complete rewrite of our documentation.

Auburndale, Massachusetts, Us

As the first front-end engineer on the team I supported customers by designing and implementing experiments. I designed best practices for using the tools and support documentation to allow both growth of the team and more independent client usage. I mentored 5 ASEs and provided training to customers.

Designed the technical architecture and implemented social networking websites withtelephone interactions using LAMP. Primary site was a social micro blogging site withvideo, images, audio, and text postings from the web or from a mobile phone. Other sitewas a social conference calling web application designed to streamline the process ofcreating a group phone call.

Private consulting, developing web applications using web best practices and open sourcetechnologies like Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript and AJAX. Projects include ordertracking systems, client interfaces for placing new orders, reviewing order history and aJava based FTP upload applet. Projects focus on standards based design for cross-browsercompliance.

Ported legacy Macintosh Frontier/Filemaker based solutions to a modern, platform-agnostic web application using open source technologies such as Apache, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript &AJAX. Developed a solution for custom image manipulations defined by clients via a web interface using Perl. Mentored junior developers in understanding existing solution architectures and gathering requirements for new projects.