
Dan Rasband
Verified Expert in Engineering
Ruby on Rails Developer
Dan has a master's degree in linguistics, but has been working as a programmer for the last 7 years. He started his development career in PHP and Drupal, and now has worked with Ruby, C#, JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, and other languages. He has experience with many AWS technologies and has designed multiple highly-secure web software architectures.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Terminal, Chrome, Sublime Text, Git, OS X
The most amazing...
...project I have worked on recently is a retirement modeling tool for financial advisers, involving a variety of complex financial algorithms.
Work Experience
Development Team Lead
Objective
- Architected and implemented an n-tier, highly-secure ASP.NET application in AWS.
- Led development of a Ruby on Rails HRIS application over multiple years.
- Developed and led the development of multiple Drupal applications that required a variety of custom modules.
- Developed multiple proprietary financial modeling calculators.
- Led the development of an enterprise B2B application using Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis for the back-end, and AngularJS for the front-end.
- Led a team of 10 developers in producing clean, maintainable, well-tested code on a variety of projects over multiple years.
Technical Writer
Launch School (formerly Tea Leaf Academy)
- Wrote several technical blog articles.
- Wrote the "Introduction to the Command Line" online book.
Senior Developer
WebChuck Web
- Developed over 50 custom Drupal modules.
- Single-handedly built a turn-key solution for Drupal applications.
- Built a custom SSO integration Drupal module for an enterprise finance firm.
- Built a custom, multi-site eCommerce Drupal application.
- Handled DevOps of over 70 Drupal applications in a Drupal multi-site environment.
Developer
Starr Tech Interactive (now part of Anthology Group)
- Helped build and maintain multiple high-traffic Drupal sites.
- Developed a single-page app with a Drupal back-end, using Drupal views and a custom JavaScript front-end.
- Developed custom PHP forms and minimal PHP applications.
Experience
Built for Teams
https://www.builtforteams.comThis application is built with Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, Redis, and MySQL on AWS; it is tested continuously using RSpec and Capybara on Codeship. The app also uses AWS's S3, EC2, KMS, CloudFront, and others.
Last Advisor
I have helped maintain and improve this software for the several past years, and have more recently been tasked with rewriting, improving, and inventing new algorithms for the software.
Rizolv
Because much of the information provided by customers could potentially contain personally identifiable information, much of the data had to be encrypted at rest and in transit. The client also required that the application be written in ASP.NET so a teammate and I learned ASP.NET and C#, architected the n-tier architecture, implemented hardware encryption, and deployed the site to production—all in a little over 6 months.
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, Ruby, CoffeeScript, PHP, ECMAScript (ES6), SQL, TypeScript, C#, Swift, Python, Go, Bash
Frameworks
GrapesJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), ASP.NET, AngularJS, Redux, Chrome, Django, Knockout (Knockout.js), JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Libraries/APIs
Square API, Rolify, Google Analytics API, AES, Backbone.js, Redis Queue, Devise, Moment.js, React, PostgREST
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Drupal 7, Ubuntu, OS X, Drupal, Linux, Heroku, CentOS, iOS
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, SQLite, SQL Server 2012, PostgreSQL
Other
Single-page Applications (SPA), CanCan, Encryption, SSL Certificates, Ruby Gems, IIS
Tools
Google Analytics, NGINX, Apache, AWS CloudFormation, Codeship, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS SDK, AWS ELB, Git, Sublime Text, Terminal, Jekyll, Xero, AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Webpack
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)
Education
Master's Degree in Linguistics
University of Hawaii at Manoa - Honolulu, Hawaii (USA)
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics & Korean (Double Major)
Brigham Young University - Provo, Utah (USA)