Whether it is a business idea needing fleshing out and/or technical consulting, I've worked with my clients at various levels to help them build their businesses. Depending on the client and their business needs, I have partnered with my clients to expand on their ideas, consult on technical requirements, assemble a team of talented people to build the business product, and lead the product to a successful release.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails / Sinatra / Merb* Sequel / ActiveRecord / Datamapper (core contributor) / SQL* Created RubyGems* PostgreSQL / MySQL / PostGIS / Redshift / Snowflake* Sidekiq / RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ * PostgreSQL Full Text Search / ElasticSearch* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / Angular v1 / Backbone.js / React v1 / JQuery / Scriptaculous / Stimulus.js* Bash (created the Bash-It framework) / Fish Shell* Titanium (created the Ti-framework) / PhoneGap

I lead a team of 5 Ruby/Rails developers at Daasity. This includes one developer located within the USA and 4 developers located outside of the USA. The team and I work together to build new custom integrations (backend and frontend) and support customer support for triaging and fixing bugs within the software.I started out as a developer building integrations and working on the platform. As the need grew for more integrations to be built, Daasity needed more developers. I created the job description and interviews, hired, and trained every developer brought into Daasity. I then was asked to lead this new team.While leading the integration team, I took on the responsibility to build out the development side of customer support. Out of this effort came a support engineer rotation for the integration team. I then trained each developer in the role of triaging, bug research, and bug fixing. Through this training, I identified a candidate that I trained more extensively and then later promoted to lead support engineer. This individual then was tasked with managing the support engineer rotation and supporting the developer who is on rotation.As the team grew, so did the need for processes. I worked with our project manager, CTO, and CEO to help build new processes for the spec-ing, building, testing, qa-ing, and releasing of a new integration. I implemented these processes which helped to reduce many hours of support related questions that came from the product, business, and sale teams. It also helped to refine the user experience.Outside of this role, I also work with the platform team to help architect platform solutions, determine new patterns to follow, implement platform solutions, and help come up with OKR's (Objectives and Key Results) for the development team as a whole.

I primarily work on build new integrations that connect to 3rd party Apis (SOAP & REST), S3, SFTP, and Databases. These integrations perform the typical ELT (Extraction, Load, & Transform) workflow where there is a backend component that will extract data from the source, load it into one of our warehouses (Snowflake or Redshift), and from there will be transformed (via SQL) to it's final location in our warehouse. The frontend part of the integration allows for the customer/analyst to select an integration, enter their credentials, and then run either a historical load or an incremental load.Technologies Used:* Ruby/Rails* PostgreSQL, Redshift, and Snowflake, MySQL, BigQuery* Frontend - HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, TailwindCSS* ES6, Stimulus.js* Sidekiq (Enterprise version)* AWS - S3, Redshift* DockerSome 3rd party Apis that I have worked with:* Netsuite* Shopify* Amazon Seller Central* Amazon Marketplace* Amazon Vendor Central* Magento* Lightspeed* Google Analytics* Facebook* Rockerbox* Pinterest* Klaviyo* Mailchimp* Attentive Mobile* Shipstation* Shipwire* Duoplane...and many more.

Working with Blue Rocket to build a state of art consumer application for a large, well known client. The product is called TripleSpot at http://www.triplespot.comTechnologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* Created RubyGems* PostgreSQL* Sidekiq* PostgreSQL Full Text Search* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery* Bash / Fish Shell

Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* Created RubyGems* PostgreSQL* Sidekiq* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

We work closely with TaylorMade's new division, Consumer Products, to create new applications that service the consumer. Also did a lot of SkunkWorks projects that I am contractually not able to talk about.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails / Sinatra* ActiveRecord / SQL* Created RubyGems* PostgreSQL / PostGIS* Sidekiq* PostgreSQL Full Text Search* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / React v1 / JQuery* Bash

When I was brought on by Pixlwise to build a 2d game that would teach internet marketing, I shared a vision with Pixlwise of creating a game platform used for teaching people valuable skills. The client was so thrilled with the idea, that we changed the 2d game into a game that would teach not only internet marketing, but also built a platform where other games could be built upon to teach people. I was instrumental in the creation of the idea that formed this company, as well as the chief architect who built the solutions. My ideas lead to meetings with very high level investors in Silicon Valley who took a keen interest in watching the platform being built.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails / Sinatra* Sequel / ActiveRecord / SQL* Created RubyGems* PostgreSQL / PostGIS* Sidekiq* PostgreSQL Full Text Search* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

Architected new systems.Led small teams of developers.Mentored ruby developers.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails / Sinatra* ActiveRecord / SQL* Created RubyGems* PostgreSQL / MySQL* Sidekiq* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

Helped work on the chi.mp platform as a software engineer.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* MySQL

Designed and built an Api that interfaced with Travelport GDS system as well as Sabre GDS system. Wrote an Api on top of those GDS systems to provide a REST-ful interface to serve an insurance client application.

Technical editor for the Ruby Phrasebook written by Jason Clinton.

Architected and built http://www.legacylocker.com.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* Created RubyGems* PostgreSQL* Sidekiq* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

Worked with a team on the Twitterfeed platform.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* MySQL* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

Managed a team to help build an online community to help return Soldiers find jobs.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* MySQL* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

I was one of their senior Ruby and Rails developer working also with the following technologies:Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* HTML* CSS* JavaScript (prototype & scriptaculous)* MySQL* Apache* Frontend Development && Backend Development

I helped Digitaria launch Gordon Rush's online ecommerce store for men's shoes. (http://gordonrush.com/) Was contacted right before launch to help their team with the following:* shopping cart* Fedex API* Site Catalyst* Fixing BugsI had a blast working through part of the night with their team to launch this site.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* MySQL* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

Worked with a team to build the online magazines for Transworld Surf as well as 6 other Transworld publications.

I was brought on to handle a security audit of a rails application for Standard & Poor's internal financial application.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* MySQL* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery

Gamble Industries was a client development company. While there I would write custom solutions for our clients. I worked with the following technologies:* Ruby* Rails* PHP* JavaScript* MySQL* PostgreSQL* XHTML* XML* CSS* Apache

Built a custom Rails application to be used by Ethan Allen for handling customer repairs.Technologies Used:* Ruby / Rails* ActiveRecord / SQL* MySQL* HTML / CSS / SASS / SCSS* JavaScript / JQuery