Graham Swan

Poznań, Poland

Member since November 21, 2013

Graham is a skilled and enthusiastic full-stack developer currently residing in Poznań. He enjoys problem solving, automating processes, and writing well-tested code, and he loves to work with clients from across the globe.

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Portfolio

Dissolve
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Nginx, HTML, SASS, CoffeeScript
P'unk Avenue
PHP, Symfony, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
EMC Corporation
Python, XML-RPC, bash scripting

Experience

Ruby, 6 years
Ruby on Rails, 6 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Ruby on Rails

The most amazing...

...application I've built is an intelligent system for generating university schedules for students based on professor ratings and student availability each day.

Employment

Software Engineer
Dissolve
2013 - 2014
- Built an eCommerce application for selling stock video.
- Led the front-end portion of the project using the Foundation framework.
- Implemented the entire email component of the project.
- Implemented a cross-device video player for delivering video previews to all browsers and mobile devices.
- Fully tested all code, including feature tests to ensure that the front-end functioned as required.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Nginx, HTML, SASS, CoffeeScript
Software Engineer
P'unk Avenue
2011 - 2011
- Wrote API connectors for Apostrophe, an in-context CMS product built on the Symfony framework.
- Integrated a medical application with Twilio, enabling patients without computers to call in their daily measurements for various studies.
- Built an application for planning bike trips around Philadelphia using drag-and-drop capabilities in Google Maps.
- Helped set up a continuous integration testing environment using Jenkins.
- Built several client sites using provided designs.
Technologies: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Software Engineer
EMC Corporation
2010 - 2010
- Worked on an automated testing framework.
- Built a performance testing tool that ran billions of input/output tests on servers spread across the globe.
- Installed new server racks to expand the company's virtual storage capacity.
- Trained interns and new employees in server rack installation and setup.
- Received a performance award for automating the company's performance test cases.
Technologies: Python, XML-RPC, bash scripting
Software Engineer
Pason Systems
2009 - 2009
- Worked on DataHub, a large database-driven application built on the Pylons framework.
- Built a PDF library, enabling customers to download financial reports.
- Built a tool for downloading and scrubbing live data to bring into the development environment.
- Fixed hundreds of legacy bugs.
- Handled full testing of all code.
Technologies: Python, Pylons, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Experience

Greycroft Partners (Development)
http://greycroft.com/
A website built for a North American venture capital firm headquartered in New York City.
iNovia Capital (Development)
http://inovia.vc/
A website built for a North American venture capital firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada.
Kimberley Homes (Development)
http://buildwithkimberley.ca/
A website built for a luxury home builder located in Edmonton, Canada.
Minesweeper Flags (Development)
http://minesweeperflags.com/
An Android game enabling people to play Minesweeper online. At its peak, the game had over 13,000 players and hosted a total of nearly 70,000 games, resulting in 3.6 million interactions.
PlanHero (Development)
A Ruby on Rails application making it easier to plan things with friends. It allows users to create events, vote on venues and dates, pay each other for tickets, and maintain a conversation until the event happens.
Facebook Comments for WordPress (Development)
https://github.com/thinkswan/facebook-comments-for-wordpress
A WordPress plugin enabling visitors to comment on content using their Facebook account. Garnered nearly 500,000 downloads before being passed on to a student at Stanford University to maintain.
App.yml for Rails (Development)
https://github.com/thinkswan/app-yml-rails
A Ruby on Rails gem that provides a simple way to maintain settings for different environments (dev, test, staging, and production). It is used on several thousand sites worldwide.
jQuery Twitter Autolink (Development)
https://github.com/thinkswan/jquery-twitter-autolink
A jQuery plugin that applies Twitter-style linking to any element. It handles @mentions, #hashlinks, and regular links.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, HTML, Ruby, SASS, CoffeeScript, CSS, PHP, Python, Java
Frameworks
Foundation, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, Capybara, Pylons, Symfony
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Backbone.js
Platforms
WordPress
Tools
RSpec, Adobe Photoshop
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada
2006 - 2012

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