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 has worked with clients all over the world.

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Portfolio

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

Experience

JavaScript, 8 years
Ruby on Rails (RoR), 6 years
Ruby, 6 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Ruby on Rails

The most amazing...

...application I've built is a system for generating university schedules for students based on time preferences and professor ratings.

Employment

Software Engineer
Dissolve
2013 - 2014
- Built an eCommerce application for selling stock video.
- Led the front-end portion of the project using Foundation Framework.
- Implemented a system for emailing customer invoices.
- Implemented a cross-device video player for delivering video previews to all browsers and mobile devices.
- Wrote unit tests and integration tests for all features and bug fixes.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Nginx, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Software Engineering Intern
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 report their daily measurements for various studies by phone.
- Built an application for planning bike trips around Philadelphia using drag-n-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 Engineering Intern
EMC Corporation
2010 - 2010
- Worked on an internal testing framework.
- Built a performance tool that ran millions of I/O tests on servers spread across data centers all over the world.
- Installed new server racks to expand the company's on-site storage capacity.
- Trained 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 Engineering Intern
Pason Systems
2009 - 2009
- Worked on DataHub, a large database-driven application built on the Pylons framework.
- Built a library that enabled customers to download financial reports in PDF format.
- Built a tool for downloading and scrubbing live data to bring into the development environment.
- Wrote unit tests and integration tests for all features and bug fixes.
Technologies: Python, Pylons, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Experience

Greycroft Partners | Freelance (Development)
https://www.greycroft.com/
A website built for a North American venture capital firm headquartered in New York City.
iNovia Capital | Freelance (Development)
https://inovia.vc/
A website built for a North American venture capital firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada.
Minesweeper Flags | Private startup (Development)
http://minesweeperflags.com/
Helped build a Minesweeper game for Android that handled networked games through a Rails API. After 13,000 players, 69,000 games played, and 3.6 million moves logged, our team of two graduated from university and each went our own way.
PlanHero | Private startup (Development)
Helped build a Rails app to make it easier to plan events, choose dates and venues, and handle payments. After one year and successfully transacting several thousand dollars, our team of five graduated from university and moved onto bigger and better things.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, PHP, Python, Java
Frameworks
Bootstrap, Redux, ZURB Foundation, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Capybara, Pylons, Symfony
Libraries/APIs
Backbone.js, jQuery, React.js, Node.js
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Platforms
WordPress
Tools
RSpec, Adobe Photoshop
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Education

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

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