Ryan Bacon Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, US

PHP/MariaDB development in Laravel and legacy PHP.Development of a new Docker-based development environment.Development and maintenance of app servers in the testing environment, creating new Jenkins jobs to deploy apps, and Jenkins / Ansible provisioning jobs to update servers.

• Software/Hardware IT Solutions, from laptop repair to computer application/social network tutoring.
• Currently preparing an Android Application for publication on the Play Store, including creating a privacy policy and proper in-app disclosures.

Columbus, GA, US

• Maintained a Laravel and legacy PHP system, with many stakeholders and a short release cycle.
• Built and deployed an ionic-based mobile app to release on the iOS App Store, and the Google Play Store.
• Initiated unit-testing and functional-testing to make releases more reliable upon release.
• Took ownership of stalled projects with little to no guidance, allowing team to reduce wait times and reduce outstanding ticket numbers within two months.
• Optimized SQL and created table indexes to speed up pages and reports by a factor of 10.

San Francisco, California, US

• Recorded weekly podcast, uploaded to YouTube. Developed templates to allow coworkers to produce podcast from recording to uploading and posting.
• Managed social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) Created template for regular e-newsletters.
• Planned and executed the redesign of a Wordpress site, www.self-healing.org, from original developer files. Involved migrating hosting, installing plugins and altering code as necessary.
• Managed SEO and advertising on Google (Adwords) and Facebook.
• Developed procedures for sharing audio files with clients, simplifying and speeding up the process for both client and employee.
• Maintained hardware and software for office (Windows, MacOS)

San Francisco, CA, US

• Diagnosed and resolved issues in a timely fashion in a large production codebase with extensive legacy code by using Zend Debugger/Xdebug and PhpStorm.
• Extensive use of PHPUnit and Github to produce and deliver high quality code, and to facilitate QA testing.
• Worked with a custom written Backbone.js client side app that interacted with a REST-based PHP backend developed in-house. Used Jasmine (Javascript BDD framework) and the Chrome JavaScript debugger.

New York City, New York, US

• Launched a suite of websites from concept in six weeks, using PHP/Zend Framework/MySQL, JQuery, and Amazon EC2.
• Planned and implemented development environment using software best practices, such as git.(github.com)
• Worked closely with stakeholders to determine requirements for their site, as well as contractors for integration/testing of work. (both front-end and back-end)Evaluated several approaches and 3rd party products.

Boca Raton, Florida, US

• Contract developer for web education company, tasked with refactoring and updating core PHP code to support iPhone applications.
• Extensive XML processing, using SimpleXML, DTD validation, and Xpath. Fast turnaround time, issue resolving for demanding clients.
• Developed creative solutions and introduced agile project management techniques to solve recurring challenges and improve developer productivity.

• (Stealth Mode Startup)
• Applied knowledge of Test-Driven-Development and software best practices to allow transition to a multiple-developer environment.
• Developed a Web-app-inspired MVC framework in Python for gathering, normalizing, and extending data from multiple sites into a standard format.
• Quickly delivered work using previously unfamiliar languages. (Erlang/Python)

San Jose, California, US

Worked on the payment back-end system overhaul, to improve reliability, scalability, and expandability. System handles > $500,000/month sales of virtual goods. Implemented the payment by phone system on top of the new payment system, from database design to implementing front-facing web pages. Handles $40,000/month of sales.Worked on implementation of a.

• Wrote MVC-based web app using MySQL, Object-Oriented PHP5, PEAR.
• Released several web sites a month quickly and easily on the database back-end.
• Developed an administrative site to allow customization by non-programmers.
• Created a Subversion repository to allow easy setup, development, and updating of web services.
• Went from concept to live in 8 weeks.

Nanodegree, Android Developer Nanodegree Program

Coursework, Mathematics/Physics