Thor Melsted Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Built APIs and backend for a ground up application rebuild using Node/TypeScript, and a React frontend framework which then got handed off to junior contractors. • Built and integrated a system-wide Terms & Conditions administration and agreement system, where customer signature and agreement status and version are tracked on a per-user basis and force a re-agreement whenever terms and conditions are updated• Built and implemented a Calendly-powered scheduling service interface, where I contributed to one of the more important items provided to top-tier clients. At the same time, I architected and implemented a lot of fallback systems to anticipate cases of user error, minimizing the likelihood of an expensive auditing process• Built and implemented Algolia search features used side-wide across the Illum system, ranging from resources to video library search to agent search. Complex indexing was introduced to fit the ever-expanding business logic• Built and implemented video scheduling features, I also added a lot of enhancements to make the process of event scheduling easier to use and more dynamically supported• Built, implemented, and updated RESTful APIs and webhooks – both for internal use and for 3rd party integration which includes Calendly, Algolia, Hurdlr and Zoom• Designed and integrated automation scripts, and batch processing to handle edge cases, listeners, jobs, queues, andschedulers

Los Angeles, California, United States

Rebuilt NodeJs news aggregatorservice• Repaired and refactored a big portion of existing PHP / jQuery platform• Established solid procedures and architectural principlesfor future upgradeability• Revamped live-streaming platform

Glendale, Ca

Woodland Hills

Have worked on projects of various sizes and budgets - using a variety of cameras, including RED Epic, ARRI Alexa, various Canon, Panasonic & Sony cameras and most DSLR models on the market. Can handle data wrangling, first light grading and make dailies with or without sound sync.

As a programmer I've worked on a multitude of projects, including a receipt scanner and validation system for gas stations, a drag and drop interface for a complex user experience on a high traffic website and have built, fixed and updated numerous Wordpress based websites, as well as custom sites built from scratch, using both procedural PHP and MVC frameworks.I have also built many custom tools, including post production workflow tools and server maintenance tools.

Keying, tracking, compositing, animation, roto-scoping, match moving, projection mapping, 3d conversion and general digital FX work.

Videography, camera operation, DIT and general equipment nerdery.Have a Panasonic GH2 with several firmware options, including a 160mbit all intra-frame setting, plus a full set of fast Nikon prime lenses (most are f/1.4 or f/2.8) and a myriad of accessories, including tripod + fluid head, 12' jib arm, monopod, gorillapod and shoulder rig, as well as ND filters, polarizers and macro diopters. Can also do timelapse, ramped timelapse, GPS distance based timelapse, motion sensor photography and more.

Greater Los Angeles Area

As head programmer / system administrator of a few small companies owned by the same individuals, I designed and created from the ground up a social buying network system with a multi-level-marketing element, including overseeing iOS app development; created a penny-auction system featuring an AI system on the back end; maintained Linux servers and wrote shell scripts for automation and networked incremental backups; built a unified admin for hundreds of networked WordPress based blog sites; built and maintained several VOD websites, including the streaming server and backend.

Greater Los Angeles Area

As head programmer took on a myriad of web projects, including an MP3 store that pre-dates iTunes for guitarist Frank Gambale, which is still in use today, and I built the first State approved online traffic school in California plus several other online traffic schools.