
Brian Shamblen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
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.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
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.
Work Experience
Principal Engineer
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.
Software Architect
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.
Co-founder
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.
Co-founder
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.
Web Developer | Senior Technical Architect
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.
Senior Web Application Developer
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.
Experience
Meteor JSON Simple Schema
https://github.com/bshamblen/meteor-json-simple-schema/I wrote this open-source Meteor package to convert a JSON Schema object to a Simple Schema instance. It allows developers who spent time creating JSON schemas for other platforms to leverage their existing work in Meteor without recreating their schemas manually and maintaining them in both formats.
Yodata
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/Racing Elements
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)
Creighton University - Omaha, NE, USA