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)• Filmed and edited video (using iMovie and Premiere Pro) for YouTube channel. Filmed video for DVD, Vision For Life, with a short timeline and minimal financial resources.

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, including developing Wordpress

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 code redemption system, that would accept both 3rd-party (retail card) codes, and company-generated (coupons/marketing fliers) codes. Part of a system to implement a new virtual currency on the site. Project was shipped on-time.

• 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