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JC Wilcox

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Springfield, MO, United States

Toptal member since May 22, 2016

Expertise

Ruby RSpec Ruby on Rails (RoR)JavaScript PostgreSQL Git HTML5 Test-driven Development (TDD)Sinatra Bash React GraphQL Vue Software Development Sublime Text Unicorn

Bio

JC has over six years of experience developing in Ruby on Rails. He is an efficient and talented developer who enjoys acquiring new skills and tackling exciting challenges, handles remote work very well, and has fantastic communication skills.

Portfolio

Exo

Vue, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Corporate Technologies Advantage

NGINX, PostgreSQL, React, RSpec, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Experience

Ruby - 7 years RSpec - 6 years Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 6 years PostgreSQL - 6 years Git - 6 years React - 2 years GraphQL - 2 years Vue - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Sublime Text, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is an online, 2D, multiplayer shooter game called Potato Ship, developed for Rails Rumble in 2014.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

2016 - PRESENT

Exo

Worked with a small team to design, build, and maintain a Rails application for securely delivering proprietary data to clients.
Implemented a Sidekiq background job queue to process thousands of large, high-quality photos with ImageMagick.
Progressively converted a vanilla Rails application (using server-rendered ERB templates with sprinkles of JQuery) to Vue.js components, powered by a GraphQL API, via TDD with Jest and RSpec.
Administered services running on AWS, including: S3 for photo storage, RDS for Postgres databases, and EC2 instances running Nginx and Puma.
Managed deployments to multiple environments with Git and Capistrano.

Technologies: Vue, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Software Engineer

2013 - PRESENT

Corporate Technologies Advantage

Created a user management system to sync user account information across various systems using Ruby on Rails.
Integrated with internal and external data sources to produce call center performance reports using Rails APIs and React.
Managed a Rails platform for organizing and locating call recordings.
Administered Postgres databases and Ubuntu servers running Phusion Passenger on Nginx for Rails servers.
Created numerous proprietary and open-source Ruby gems for logic shared across applications.

Technologies: NGINX, PostgreSQL, React, RSpec, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Experience

Task Helper Gem

https://github.com/xDAGRONx/task_helper

Ruby wrapper for the MyTaskHelper API, allowing developers to easily read data from MyTaskHelper, and providing a comprehensive ORM layer for retrieving record data and relations.

PostgREST Gem

https://github.com/xDAGRONx/postgrest-ruby

Ruby wrapper for PostgREST APIs (https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest). The gem is a work in progress, but the goal is to reproduce the major functionality of the Ruby Sequel gem for PostgREST.

Potato Ship

https://github.com/xDAGRONx/potato_ship

Potato Ship is an online multiplayer game built in 48 hours by myself and 3 other developers for the Rails Rumble competition in 2014.

Education

2010 - 2014

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics

Missouri State University - Springfield, Missouri

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Ruby on Rails API, React, jQuery, Vue, Vuex

Tools

RSpec, Sublime Text, Git, NGINX, Vim Text Editor, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Apache Tomcat, Capistrano, Bitbucket, GitHub, HipChat, Slack, Google Hangouts, Passenger, Apache

Languages

Ruby, SQL, Bash, JavaScript, HTML5, HTML, GraphQL, Python, SCSS, Java, Python 3, CSS, CSS3, PHP, CoffeeScript, Unicorn, S-PLUS, R, C++, Sass

Frameworks

Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sinatra, AngularJS, Prototype Framework

Paradigms

REST, Unit Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD)

Storage

JSON, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite

Platforms

MacOS, WordPress, Windows Server 2008, Windows, Ubuntu, CentOS 6, CentOS

Other

Software Development, Ubuntu Server, Ruby Gems, Ajax, SOAP, ThinApp

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