

Bruz Marzolf
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Bruz is a full-stack developer who has loved building things for the web since he first started doing it 15 years ago. He's spent a lot of time on the back end building services with Ruby and working with databases and infrastructure, but has also done substantial work on the front end building apps in JavaScript.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Sublime Text, OS X
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was setting up a microservice architecture and being able to rapidly build out nearly a dozen microservices to provide new features.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
Habit
- Built out new features, working across the Ruby on Rails back-end and React front-end.
Freelance Web Developer
Fat Cork
- Built the initial eCommerce site for the business using a framework to quickly get to market.
- Overhauled the initial eCommerce app to provide a custom back-end interface that better matched their business.
- Included a high level of unit test coverage for the complex business logic in the overhauled app, and a large end-to-end test suite to provide high confidence when making changes.
- Proactively monitored issues with the site and fixed them.
- Managed email accounts and other IT needs of the company.
Back-end Ruby on Rails Engineer
Clustrix (via Toptal)
- Optimized memory usage extensively to operate within a relatively small memory footprint.
- Redesigned various database-intensive operations to greatly improve performance while still maintaining the same simple API.
- Rewrote a key multi-threaded background process to improve speed and reliability.
- Wrote and maintained Bash utilities used by customers to maintain their installations.
- Added an API annotation system that provided both parameter validation as well as API documentation.
Senior Front-end Engineer
Luno (via Toptal)
- Created various new user interfaces in a sophisticated React.js stack that used state management with Redux and universal rendering and data fetching.
- Implemented the form handling system used throughout the app.
- Supported a new UI with unit tests for the React.js components.
Senior Software Engineer
AmpX²
- Led the development of the main Ruby on Rails/Backbone.js customer-facing web app.
- Built 11 Ruby microservices to support various new features.
- Helped transition to a Docker infrastructure.
- Built a service to package microservices with Docker, streamlining the deployment pipeline.
- Led the development of the web apps for three new rapidly-developed products.
Lab Manager
Institute for Systems Biology
- Developed and supported web applications for lab workflows, primarily using Ruby on Rails.
- Created data analysis pipelines using the R statistical language.
- Built image analysis tools using Java.
- Performed data analysis on data sets for various researchers.
- Demonstrated strong writing skills, authoring journal publications, grant applications, and internal documentation.
Experience
My Flare
Fat Cork
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Skills
Languages
Ruby, ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript, Elixir, R, Java, SQL, Bash, Clojure, Python
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap, Sinatra
Other
Back-end
Libraries/APIs
React
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Functional Programming, Database Design
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, Docker, Linux, OS X
Storage
PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL
Tools
Sublime Text, Git
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry
Western Washington University - Washington