Brian Shamblen, Full-stack Developer in Danville, CA, United States
Brian Shamblen

Full-stack Developer in Danville, CA, United States

Member since February 23, 2016
Brian is a full-stack engineer developing for more than two decades. He has architected and contributed to various projects, ranging from mobile apps to full-scale, custom enterprise platforms. He loves working on new projects and being exposed to new technologies. Brian prides himself on his professionalism and conducts himself well in many different work environments.
Brian is now available for hire

Portfolio

  • Flow Cannabis Co.
    Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redis, Jenkins, SQL, Sass, CSS, HTML, AngularJS...
  • Riffyn, Inc.
    Agile Software Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architecture...
  • Yodata
    Amazon Web Services (AWS), JSON/XML Schemas, JSON-LD, OAuth, Mongoose...

Experience

Location

Danville, CA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

jQuery, Bootstrap, SQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Linux, MacOS, React

The most amazing...

...product I've coded was a mobile app that allowed users to splice together photos and videos, add transitions and captions, and then upload them to YouTube.

Employment

  • Principal Engineer

    2017 - PRESENT
    Flow Cannabis Co.
    • Architected and implemented a new accounting layer within the back office system to accurately track accounts payables and accounts receivables.
    • Created a new eCommerce platform that allows wholesale customers to view available inventory, place reservations, view order history, and communicate with account managers.
    • Performed an end-to-end API integration with the California track and trace system, METRC. This includes automatic registration of new items, packages, and adjustments and the creation of transfer templates.
    • Implemented a full API integration with LeafLink to publish brands, products, inventory levels, availability, images, batches, lab report PDFs, and orders.
    • Expanded our custom inventory management system's functionality to allow for accurate inventory tracking from purchase to sale.
    • Performed migration from Heroku to AWS. Used EC2, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch, S3, Route 53, and RDS.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redis, Jenkins, SQL, Sass, CSS, HTML, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, React, Agile Software Development, Architecture, Bootstrap, Database Modeling, Front-end Development, Full-stack, Git, GitHub, Amazon EC2, Bootstrap 3, Scrum, NPM, Underscore.js, Responsive, Web Application Architecture, jQuery, REST, JSON, Lodash, Schemas, REST APIs, Ruby on Rails 5, PostgreSQL, APIs, Looker
  • Software Architect

    2016 - 2017
    Riffyn, Inc.
    • Developed a user interface to allow non-technical people to create SQL statements with dropdowns and drag-and-drop.
    • Built a Docker image for our customers to use, allowing them to access local, secure data sources and push data to the Riffyn platform.
    • Built the API for Docker containers to communicate within our hosted environment. These APIs allowed our customers to push data collected by local equipment into the Riffyn platform.
    • Worked on a drag-and-drop user interface for customers to be able to define R&D experiments (multiple steps with multiple inputs and outputs) and the relationships between those experiments. Visualization was performed using D3.js and React.
    Technologies: Agile Software Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architecture, Amazon EC2, CSS, Database Modeling, Front-end Development, Full-stack, GitHub, Git, HTML, JavaScript, Meteor, Node.js, MongoDB, Mongoose, Docker, Docker Hub, D3.js, SQL, Scrum, jQuery, HTML5, Web Application Architecture, REST, JSON, Responsive, React, Schemas, APIs
  • Co-founder

    2014 - 2017
    Yodata
    • Created an API server that dynamically generated Mongoose models from open source schemas.
    • Built an OAuth authentication system for users to grant applications permission to their data.
    • Created several open-source tools to allow developers to translate data from one schema to another, using JSON-LD and custom JavaScript translations.
    • Built and managed the AWS hosting environment, including, but not limited to EBS, EC2, S3, SMS, SQS, and ElastiCache.
    • Created an open-source JavaScript API client that works in Node.js, Meteor, or web browsers.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), JSON/XML Schemas, JSON-LD, OAuth, Mongoose, Swagger, Bootstrap, MongoDB, Node.js, Meteor, JavaScript, Agile Software Development, Full-stack, CSS, jQuery, GitHub, Git, OAuth 2, HTML5, HTML, NPM, Amazon EC2, REST, JSON, Lodash, Responsive, Front-end Development, Architecture, REST APIs, APIs
  • Co-founder

    2013 - 2014
    Weather Elements, LLC
    • Created Racing Elements: a Formula-1 themed weather app for iOS and Android.
    • Developed the Selfie Analyzer: a funny iOS app that reports how awesome or lame your selfies (self-generated photos) are.
    • Built and submitted apps to the Apple App Store and Google Play.
    • Developed an API server that monitored specific Twitter feeds to aggregate and display them within the Racing Elements app.
    • Created a prototype iOS app for a product called Buzz Station. The app allowed users to splice photos and videos on their phones, apply transitions, effects, title slides, and text overlays, then export them to several video hosting platforms.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js, Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, Agile Software Development, Scrum, SQL, Full-stack, Mobile App Development, Xcode, Android SDK, Schemas, JSON, REST, REST APIs, APIs
  • Web Developer | Senior Technical Architect

    2002 - 2013
    CoreLogic
    • Co-created Agent Achieve, a CRM platform for the real estate industry.
    • Developed two template-driven websites in C# ASP.NET: one for brokers/offices and one for agents (including listing, office, agent search, lead generation forms, and more).
    • Created most of the user portal/CRM website, including contacts, tasks (single and recurring), notes, calendar, email, website management, lead management, marketing, concierge, etc.
    • Built the billing system for individual agents to be able to pay for upgrades to the platform. This included a multi-tier, flexible product building system, recurring payments, emails, and invoices.
    • Developed a Windows service that synced MLS data from over 60 MLS RETS servers every 15 minutes. We were the first software provider to the real estate industry to maintain this frequency.
    • Created a browser-based email client with a UI similar to Outlook, which supported multiple accounts, had a drag-n-drop ability, nested email folders, attachments, meeting requests, and more.
    Technologies: Windows Services, JavaScript, jQuery, Windows Server, IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, ASP.NET, Agile Software Development, SQL, Scrum, Full-stack, CSS, HTML, SaaS, Database Modeling, XML, Web Application Architecture, Front-end Development, Architecture, Schemas, APIs
  • Senior Web Application Developer

    2001 - 2002
    Prudential California Realty
    • Rewrote Prudential's webtop CRM product in only three months.
    • Fixed the commission reporting engine that an outside consulting company created; had to rewrite almost 60 complicated SQL Server stored procedures to fix account issues.
    • Aggregated MLS data from 13 different counties in California and Nevada, providing Prudential's customers with the most robust real estate search in their market at the time.
    • Designed a user management system that allowed users to belong to teams, offices, companies, and franchises.
    • Maintained the hosting environment for the servers, including installation and configuration of Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server (clustering), and hardware/network configuration.
    Technologies: Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, APIs

Experience

  • Yodata

    A platform to allow developers to share and collaborate on open-source schemas, including a back end as a service (BaaS) to store data using those schemas. Data owners can provide access to applications using OAuth or manual provisioning.

    I was the author of the entire back-end platform—using Node.js and Mongoose—to dynamically generate APIs and allow developers to access/store user data within their applications.

    I was also a major contributor to the developer portal written in Meteor and Node.js. The portal provides a way for developers to create and manage organizations, applications, models, and data maps and collaborate with other developers.

  • Meteor-JSON-Simple-Schema
    https://github.com/bshamblen/meteor-json-simple-schema/

    A Meteor package designed to convert a JSON schema to Simple Schema (the primary schema package for Meteor). This project was created to allow us to convert database-generated schemas into code on the fly so that we could use generated forms dynamically.

  • Racing Elements

    I was responsible for developing both the iOS and Android versions of this application. I also managed the AWS hosting environment. Racing Elements was an immersive weather app highlighting professional photographs of Formula 1 races, cars, and drivers. We partnered with Paul Henri Cahier to source the images and used a weather service API to provide hourly and daily forecasts and current weather data.

Skills

  • Languages

    Ruby, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, XML, Objective-C, Java
  • Frameworks

    Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby on Rails 5, OAuth 2, Android SDK
  • Libraries/APIs

    Lodash, REST APIs, Underscore.js, jQuery, Node.js, React, D3.js
  • Paradigms

    Agile Software Development, REST, Web Application Architecture, Scrum, Responsive
  • Storage

    JSON, Database Modeling, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Other

    Architecture, Front-end Development, SaaS, APIs, OAuth, Full-stack, Schemas, Mobile App Development
  • Tools

    GitHub, NPM, Git, Mongoose, Looker, Xcode, Docker Hub
  • Platforms

    Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Meteor, Docker

Education

  • Certificate in Mainframe Programming (Computer Science)
    1997 - 1998
    Creighton University - Omaha, NE, USA

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