Brandon Blakeley, Developer in Portland, United States
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Brandon Blakeley

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Software Developer

Location
Portland, United States
Toptal Member Since
October 18, 2014

Brandon is a top developer with extensive experience in developing robust solutions to complex problems. He emphasizes communicating proactively with clients and has a knack for writing efficient, clean code.

MacOSGitRubyPostgreSQLRuby on Rails (RoR)FFmpegEmber.jsYouTube APICoffeeScriptPythonMySQLGitHubSassHTML5Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Sublime Text 2, Git, OS X

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is an interactive, responsive MIDI renderer with a synchronized music synthesizer (ES6, SVG, HTML5 Canvas, Web Audio API).

Work Experience

Founder

2013 - PRESENT
Noteriver.com
  • Created a MIDI parsing JavaScript/ES6 library following extensive specifications.
  • Developed a music synthesizer using instrument samples and the Web Audio API.
  • Designed an interactive, responsive piano roll renderer in SVG and HTML5 Canvas.
  • Retooled the Web Audio API synthesis and canvas renderer as a Node.js background task to generate videos.
  • Integrated with YouTube to enable video export and upload.
  • Built an API in Ruby on Rails complaint with json:api v1.0.
  • Developed a direct-to-s3 signed file uploader.
Technologies: Ember.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Software Developer

2015 - 2016
FocusVision
  • Collaborated with a team of six to develop a qualitative marketing research platform.
  • Integrated legacy authentication for multiple roles (admin, researcher, participant, observer).
  • Developed a background job for creating "printable reports" critical to clients' business needs.
  • Built a JSON API on top of an existing Ruby on Rails back-end.
  • Built the front-end in Ember CLI with carefully considered UX details.
Technologies: Ember.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Research Assistant

2010 - 2013
University of Washington, Seattle
  • Developed an iOS app that infers the mode of locomotion (walking, biking, driving, bussing, etc.) from sensor data (GPS location, speed, acceleration, etc.) cross-referenced with ground-level data (bus stops, streets, sidewalks, etc.).
  • Developed an algorithm that predicts novel bacteria symbiosis from microbial metabolism big data.
Technologies: Python, iOS

Software Development Intern

2010 - 2010
Amazon.com
  • Developed an internal inventory service for EC2.
  • Parsed inventory data dumps in different formats.
  • Built a command line interface to query inventory availability.
Technologies: Python

Enzyme Corporation

Enzyme.io provides a platform for life science companies to accelerate development and lower costs for new products by automating much of the hassle involved with FDA regulations.

Ruby on Rails API back-end and Ember.js front-end.

Time Zone App

A project for the Toptal screening process that features a Ruby on Rails REST API back-end and Ember.js front-end.

Animidify

https://www.youtube.com/user/aniMIDIfy
Programmatically generated videos of piano rolls of public domain MIDIs and uploaded to YouTube.

WatchPlayPiano

https://www.youtube.com/user/watchplaypiano
Programmatically generated piano tutorials from MusicXML files and uploaded to YouTube.

CCAudiobooks

Programmatically generated videos from LibriVox audiobooks, uploaded to YouTube.

Languages

Sass, HTML5, JavaScript, Ruby, CoffeeScript, HTML, Python, CSS3, CSS, Java, Objective-C, Swift, Lisp, Haskell

Frameworks

Ember.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), iOS SDK

Libraries/APIs

JSON API, Web Audio API, FFmpeg, YouTube API, jQuery, HTML5 Canvas, jQuery UI, Google API, Amazon API

Tools

GitHub, Git, Sublime Text 2

Paradigms

Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Test-driven Development (TDD), Agile Software Development, Model View Controller (MVC), Functional Programming, Event-driven Programming

Platforms

MacOS, Ubuntu, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, iOS, OS X

Storage

PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL

Other

Software Development, Front-end Development, Unix Shell Scripting

2010 - 2013

Master's (Ph.D Dropout) Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

The University of Washington, Seattle - Seattle, Washington

2006 - 2010

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics

The University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas

2006 - 2010

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

The University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas