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Hire EricEric Z. Beard
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Location
Kissimmee, FL, United States
Toptal Member Since
September 18, 2017
Eric is an experienced software architect and engineering manager. He has designed and built large, complex software systems from the ground up and has hired and managed as many as 100 engineers. He was the CTO at Loop, LLC (www.autoloop.com) for over a decade, where he created one of the leading customer engagement platforms for auto dealerships. Other companies that he has worked for in senior roles include AOL and British Telecom.
Portfolio
Foundation Mercury
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bootstrap, jQuery, Amazon Aurora, MySQL, Python
Finexio
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Relational Database Services (RDS), MySQL, Node.js...
Loop, LLC
BigQuery, Spark, Hadoop, AngularJS, Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, C#
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
MySQL, Flask, Python, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...product I’ve created is AutoLoop—a customer engagement platform for auto dealerships. 100 million customer records, thousands of tables, and 8 million+ LOC.
Work Experience
Founder | CEO
2017 - PRESENT
Foundation Mercury
- Worked for Foundation Mercury—a geo-demographic database for marketers and researchers with a robust REST API written in Python (Flask), and a MySQL back-end hosted on Amazon Aurora.
- Built this site over the summer with a small team of interns.
- Developed the front-end in jQuery/Bootstrap.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bootstrap, jQuery, Amazon Aurora, MySQL, Python
CTO
2017 - 2017
Finexio
- Worked for Finexio—an early stage startup in the B2B payments space; was fully responsible for all aspects of the technology solution.
- Provisioned and administered Linux virtual machines on AWS.
- Developed web apps in JavaScript on Node.js.
- Implemented file processing with Python.
- Worked on MySQL data modeling, SQL programming, and database administration.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Relational Database Services (RDS), MySQL, Node.js, Python
CTO
2005 - 2017
Loop, LLC
- Was hired as the first employee.
- Filled many roles such as lead developer, product manager, database administrator, and recruiter.
- Designed a custom data access layer to partition data in over 1,000 database tables across dozens of physical database machines.
- Wrote a SIP server in C# from scratch to handle IVR calls.
- Hired and managed a team of over 100 engineers on 18 scrum teams.
- Personally wrote a significant portion of an 8 million line codebase.
Technologies: BigQuery, Spark, Hadoop, AngularJS, Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, C#
Development Team Leader
2004 - 2005
Susquehanna Technologies
- Led the software development projects for government nonprofits.
- Conducted company training on advanced Microsoft server products such as Biztalk Server 2004.
- Developed OLAP cubes and DTS packages for use by the marketing department at the Graduate Management Admission Council.
- Led the architecture and implementation of the Fraud Emergency Warning System for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators using ASP.NET, C# and SQL Server 2000.
- Led the development team tasked with productizing a customer relationship management system.
Technologies: ASP.NET, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, C#
Senior Software Engineer
2003 - 2004
AOL
- Led as a member of a research and development team responsible for researching Windows Vista alpha builds to prepare for the next version of the AOL client.
- Became the resident .NET expert at the company.
Technologies: C#, .NET
Lead Developer
2002 - 2003
British Telecom
- Led a successful project of migrating a legacy billing application to J2EE/Oracle.
- Gathered the requirements, designed the system, ordered and installed the necessary hardware, and wrote a significant portion of the code.
Technologies: Solaris, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP), Oracle, Java
Chief of Software Development
2000 - 2002
Brainbench
- Led a team of 12 developers, organized the analysis, and designed new projects—including data modeling and object-oriented design, supervised programming, conducted code reviews, deployed new software on the production site and managed the maintenance of existing web applications.
- Developed web applications using Java, Servlets, JSP, JavaBeans, EJB, XML, DHTML, SQL Server and Flash to develop computer adaptive tests (CAT) for skills certifications.
- Performed systems administration—managing servers running Solaris 8 with Apache, Resin, and Borland App Server.
- Gained extensive experience writing Sh, Bash, and Perl scripts.
Technologies: Jakarta EE, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP), Microsoft SQL Server, Java
Russian Interpreter | Arms Control Inspector
1991 - 2000
USMC
- Traveled extensively in the former Soviet Union on a diplomatic passport in support of arms control treaties.
- Led as many as 60 marines as a platoon sergeant.
- Awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the Joint Service Achievement Medal.
- Was honorably discharged at the rank of staff sergeant.
- Managed an intranet site that hosted training materials at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML
Skills
Languages
Python 3, SQL, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, HTML, Sh, Java
Frameworks
.NET, Flask, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Hadoop, Spark, ASP.NET, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP)
Storage
MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud
Other
Team Building, Product Management, Relational Database Services (RDS)
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle, Solaris, Jakarta EE, iOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Tools
BigQuery
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