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Bob Matcuk, Full-stack Developer in Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Bob Matcuk

Full-stack Developer in Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Member since March 26, 2018
Bob started writing code when he was eight as a hobby that grew into a career. He's built desktop apps for Windows, OS X, and Linux, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and web apps that receive upwards of 80,000 impressions per minute using a wide variety of the latest languages and technologies.
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Portfolio

  • Rover.com
    Vim Text Editor, HTML, Agile, GitHub, Web, CSS, Full-stack, Docker, MySQL...
  • Whitepages
    Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vim Text Editor, HTML, Agile, RSpec, GitHub, SQL...
  • Contix
    Vim Text Editor, HTML, MacOS, React Native, Agile, Windows, RSpec, GitHub...

Experience

Location

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Vim Text Editor, OS X

The most amazing...

...thing I've built was an artificial neural network utilizing bidirectional LSTM layers to classify user inputs into different search terms.

Employment

  • Software Engineer III

    2018 - PRESENT
    Rover.com
    • Built new features for Rover's Django-based web front-end.
    • Built unit tests for all new code. Rover has over 90% unit test coverage.
    Technologies: Vim Text Editor, HTML, Agile, GitHub, Web, CSS, Full-stack, Docker, MySQL, Django, Python

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2016 - 2018
    Whitepages
    • Improved and maintained a core Ruby on Rails web app serving 80k+ page views per minute.
    • Migrated the system to a microservice architecture.
    • Migrated the system to Kubernetes on AWS and helped build tooling to automate deployments using Helm and Jenkins.
    • Improved performance decreasing total page load by more than 1.5 seconds.
    • Built a bi-directional LSTM neural network to classify visitor search terms.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vim Text Editor, HTML, Agile, RSpec, GitHub, SQL, Web, JavaScript, CSS, Full-stack, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, TensorFlow, Python, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2013 - 2016
    Contix
    • Built an NLP pipeline using RabbitMQ, Ruby, and Java to ingest tweets in real time, perform entity recognition, and perform machine learning techniques to classify the tweets.
    • Built a restful API and web app front-end using Ruby on Rails to display real-time news alerts using web sockets.
    • Built a native Windows application (in C#) and a native Mac OS X application (using Objective-C) that used the API and web socket connections to display news in real time.
    • Created a React app that was meant to replace both the web front-end and native apps (via Electron) reusing as much code as possible. The web front-end piece was completed, and the desktop piece was mostly done (I just needed to work in native notifications), but the company ran out of funding.
    Technologies: Vim Text Editor, HTML, MacOS, React Native, Agile, Windows, RSpec, GitHub, SQL, jQuery, Web, JavaScript, CSS, Full-stack, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Node.js, Java, Objective-C, C#, React, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2011 - 2013
    OpenArc
    • Worked with clients to gather requirements, define features, develop, release, deploy, and maintain many software systems.
    • Built a custom land-survey plotting app using OpenLayers and PostGIS.
    • Integrated with many third-party APIs including Braintree for payments.
    • Contributed to open-source software such as OpenLayers.
    Technologies: HTML, SQL, jQuery, Web, JavaScript, CSS, Full-stack, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, Git, C#, PHP, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2009 - 2011
    Four Rivers Software Systems
    • Developed a mobile-focused web app using VB.Net.
    • Worked with clients to gather requirements and develop customizations for their organization.
    Technologies: Waterfall Development, HTML, Web, CSS, Full-stack, C++, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET

Experience

  • Hireology

    Hireology was a major client of mine while working at OpenArc. At the time, I was the sole developer, working directly with the client to implement new features, improve payment flows with the Braintree API, and fix bugs.

  • Web-starter-kit
    https://github.com/bmatcuk/web-starter-kit

    Web-starter-kit is a simple example project that can be used as a good starting point for building a React web app using Webpack, including support for hot reload. The starter kit can build isomorphic apps where static pages can be pre-rendered, and all pages can be rendered server-side for improved SEO.

  • Html-brunch-static
    https://github.com/bmatcuk/html-brunch-static

    Brunch is a build tool for JavaScript and CSS that focuses on simplicity. Html-brunch-static is a plugin that adds support for building static HTML as well with pluggable support for several alternative languages such as Pug/Jade, Markdown, and Handlebars.

  • Doublestar
    https://github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar

    Doublestar is a drop-in replacement for Golang's built-in path Match and Glob functions that adds support for doublestars, a.k.a. globstars. For example: path/**/match would recursively match any file or directory called "match" under the "path" directory.

  • Additional Code Samples on My Github
    https://github.com/bmatcuk

    I have many open source projects available on GitHub in a variety of languages.

Skills

  • Languages

    Python, SQL, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, C#, Objective-C, Java, PHP, VB.NET, C++

  • Frameworks

    Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap, Django, Flask, minitest, React Native, ASP.NET

  • Libraries/APIs

    Node.js, jQuery, React, TensorFlow

  • Tools

    GitHub, RSpec, Git, Mocha, Webpack, Vim Text Editor, Jenkins, RabbitMQ

  • Paradigms

    Test-driven Development (TDD), Waterfall Development, Agile

  • Platforms

    Web, Windows, MacOS, Linux, OS X, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), iOS, Android

  • Storage

    MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, PostGIS

  • Other

    Full-stack, AWS

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
    2001 - 2005
    Penn State University - State College, PA
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
    2001 - 2005
    Penn State University - State College, PA

Certifications

  • React Native Academy
    JANUARY 2019 - PRESENT
    Toptal
  • Blockchain Specialization
    NOVEMBER 2018 - PRESENT
    Coursera
  • Machine Learning
    AUGUST 2016 - PRESENT
    Stanford University | via Coursera

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