Travis Hooper
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Spring Branch, TX, United States
Toptal member since April 27, 2020
Travis is a senior Ruby/Ruby on Rails developer with over five years of experience in Rails application development. He is passionate and highly motivated to work in areas of data, science, math, finance, encryption, security, eCommerce, and projects requiring deep analytical approaches. His work has increased security and optimized work processes resulting in savings of both time and money for his clients.
Portfolio
Experience
- MySQL - 9 years
- Redis - 9 years
- Ruby - 9 years
- PostgreSQL - 9 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 9 years
- HTML - 6 years
- Devise - 6 years
- gRPC - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
The most amazing...
...project I've designed and developed was a 2-factor authentication for BigCommerce's platform.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
BigCommerce
- Acted as the identity and access management (I&AM) team and marketplace applications platform (MAP) team Ruby on Rails developer.
- Managed the implementation of new product features and bug fixes within authorization/authentication and app registry domains.
- Integrated payments for theme purchases into our existing store subscription payment service.
- Designed and built a metadata service to manage information for applications assets (videos, images, case studies).
- Transitioned internal JSON microservice communication endpoints over to gRPC.
- Performed technical interviews for candidates and led preliminary coding exercise screenings.
- Led development on an in-house-built 2-step verification project BigCommerce's precursor to full 2-factor authentication.
Software Engineer
PeopleAdmin
- Acted as the core team Ruby on Rails developer responsible for the implementation of new features and bug fixes.
- Designed and built a Single Sign-On (Web SSO) web solution using Sinatra to connect our multi-tenancy core application to our 3rd-party analytics service.
- Designed and built a dashboard for our performance management module using AngularJS/JSON API to give our clients a quick and visual status update for their performance reviews.
Experience
Algorithmic Exchange Trading Platform
Education
Graduate Studies in Chemistry
Texas A&M University - College Station, Texas, USA
Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry
Portland State Univeristy - Portland, Oregon, USA
Associate of Science Degree in General Studies
Portland Community College - Portland, Oregon, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Devise, jQuery, React, Vue
Tools
RSpec, Git, Rake
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, HTML
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Angular, GrapesJS, gRPC, Bootstrap, AngularJS
Paradigms
RESTful Development
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis
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