Virginia Commonwealth University

Lead Engineer at My Subscription Addiction

Keyport, New Jersey

My Subscription Addiction

Lead Engineer

One of the initial developers responsible for launching site from beta to public. Responsible for inprogress site redesign and rewrite from Rails/Knockout.js to React.o Implemented a responsive design to make site usable on mobile devices. This involved upgrading from Foundation 4 to Bootstrap 4.o Assisted in buildout and migration to GraphQL API.o Redesigned entire site to be fully responsive for mobile devices to provide over 80% of the visitors to the site a better browsing experience.o Integrated React on Rails into application to allow for gradual migration from ERB and Knockout.js to React.o Designed and developed a call-to-action prompt for users to rate prior purchases, resulting in an increase in engagement and purchases due to more information provided to prospective customers.o Developed patented technology allowing users to define customized genres that would sort search results using distances and priority rankings.

Scribl

Lead Full Stack Developer

Part time consultant working to implement features necessary for launch using React, Node.js, and Swift development.o Developed ecommerce website for users to manage subscriptions to the service, going fromSketch designs to fully implemented HTML/CSS/React.o Handled Stripe integration on both the Stripe side and the backend API side.o Wrote and optimized process to parse and load 100GB file of artists and media information toallow music streaming in-app.o Optimized in app search by implementing ElasticSearch indexingeslint and jest testing on the React code.o Implemented code standards by integrating eslint and mocha testing on the express API andeslint and jest testing on the React code.

Ursa Music

Senior Lead Developer

Senior lead developer for government contractor for Digital Innovation and Development (DID(it)), a group within USCIS at the Department of Homeland Security. Main responsibilities included building and designing to bring various local developed apps across the organization into a single infrastructure with a focus on data governance.o Lead on multiple projects built using Rails and React.o Assisted in implementation of DID(it) playbook implemented in Jekyll that was based off of theDigital Services Playbook.o Built out team whose focus was on developing internal facing APIs and working with teams tointegrate standardized APIs into their applications for sharing data across applications.o Assisted DevOps with keeping CI pipeline up to date and functioning as desired. This consistedof Jenkins, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and code checking tools (Rubocop, Rspec, Brakeman).o Supported internal Rails engine that allowed for quick scaffolding of new Rails applications withauthentication and various coding standards baked in.o Developed Rails API that took employee data from 5 different systems and normalized into asingle response for consumption by other applications.o Introduced GraphQL into internal APIs for use across various projectso Designed and coded microservice allowing other apps to access standardized organizationaldata within their apps.o Worked with designers to build out a library of design components for easy consumption bydevelopers for both Rails and React applications implemented using Storybooko Worked with a team of other senior developers to determine and develop coding standardsenforced across all applications (linting, style, test coverage, type checking).o Worked with Data Stewards Group to ensure that data from various groups was consistent andstandardized across DHS.

Perspecta

Senior Lead Application Developer

Lead Ruby on Rails and React.js developer on B2B social networking platform allowing members todiscovery and interact with other members from around the world within their professional network.

betwixt.us

Optimization specialist for embedded polling platform utilizing social aspects to drive traffic back to content owner’s website. Biggest win was reducing database calls made by express server by a ratio of 50 to 1.

Rollipoll

Development Consultant

Lead developer on system used internally to manage all customers, their products, reference data,reports, and billing data.o Integrated Angular with Rails to provide interface for managing Google Cloud Productresources and environment.o Architected and developed real time cloud environment resource monitoring micro-service –utilized AWS, Node.js running in Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and Kinesis.o Split large monolithic application into micro-services that communicated and synced datautilizing Redis and custom-built API gems.o Lead project developing Hadoop process using Pig, Hive, and Ozzie to process daily input filescontaining > 25 million records of all usage from AWS.o Utilized Java and Scala for Hadoop implementation.o Optimized Hadoop process post-implementation to take advantage of database optimizations(table partitioning, indexes) and AWS services (Redshift, Elastic Map Reduce)o Implemented customer portal that allowed for full management (created, read, update,delete) of all AWS and Azure cloud resources utilizing APIs from Amazon and Microsoft.o Lead project for onboarding and migrating 1000+ new customers after an acquisition. Thisincluded bridging multiple systems together via API and shell scripts and re-engineering ouronboarding process with urgency.o Managed and performed migration from Xapian search to ElasticSearch for multiple models inthe system.

Rackspace

Senior Lead Ruby on Rails Developer, Enterprise Architect

Co-creator of system used by brokerage firms allowing for real-time browser-based plugin-free voice communication over the Internet. Utilized Ruby on Rails for the web application and two node.js servers – one to handle real time voice communication via WebRTC and one to handle messaging between clients.

Brokerchat

Owner, Lead Developer

Responsible for designing and developing object-oriented PL/SQL interface to system using custom record and collection types. Worked with messaging and cloud teams to ensure data was robust and correct. Lead project syncing and integrating legacy functionality into system and retiring legacy applications.

Citi

Lead Developer, Oracle and Java

Architected and developed custom ETL (Extract Transform Load) system utilizing Perl, PHP, VB, and Oracle PL/SQL, which was utilized across all corporate functions. Once in production, worked with a team of up to 14 developers and business analysts in supporting, maintaining, and enhancing the system to meet ever-changing needs and requirements.

Dan Brooking