Mateusz Dominiak
Verified Expert in Engineering
Ruby on Rails Developer
Matt is a senior web developer and architect with sixteen years of experience. His core competency lies in end-to-end architecting and development of web applications through all phases from the ground up. He has a proven track record of successful product launches working remotely for technology startups for the past eleven years.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sublime Text 3, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker, Git, MacOS, DataGrip, CircleCI, Pivotal Tracker, Slack
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a multi-threaded server collecting telemetry measurements from remotely deployed sensors with a low-footprint custom communication protocol.
Work Experience
Senior Ruby on Rails and Node.js Developer
Freelance
- Implemented high-performance bots for arbitrage and market-making on centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges.
- Developed a dynamic distributed algorithm for efficient backtesting of automated Forex trading strategies over a large volume of historical data.
- Designed distributed sharded database for efficient querying and storage of billions of records. Implemented import of tick, bar, and indicator data from third-party Forex feeds.
- Built reporting dashboards and charts with React and TradingView.
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Jungle Scout
- Launched a marketplace platform based on open-source Sharetribe for Amazon Freelancers offering services to Amazon Sellers.
- Implemented complex Stripe integration for a marketplace charging service and processing fees using managed and custom Stripe accounts, on-behalf charges, transfers, payouts, and partial and full refunds.
- Developed multi-step checkout and abandoned cart notifications, which led to improved sales.
- Built a highly demanded attachments feature for freelancer-client chat, which quickly grew to hundreds of thousands of files stored in and served from AWS S3.
- Integrated Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics with custom dimensions, metrics, and events to measure the impact of rolled-out features.
- Built a listing WYSIWIG editor based on Basecamp's open-source Trix to improve the quality of listings.
- Redesigned the front-end according to brand guidelines. Used Litmus to improve HTML email templates to be responsive and support a wide range of email clients, including Outlook.
- Introduced Cypress end-to-end acceptance tests and improved unit test coverage.
- Implemented Stripe charge metadata for accounting and financial reports in Stripe Sigma.
- Contributed to the upstream open-source Sharetribe project with bug fixes.
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Diagnotes, Inc.
- Developed a HIPAA-compliant healthcare text, audio, and video communication platform for medical providers and patients.
- Built web video chat and encrypted video archiving.
- Created and integrated an ActiveRecord library for efficient and seamless data encryption and decryption using Pgcrypto and AWS KMS.
- Built LDAP authentication and synchronization of ActiveDirectory users, and also SAML SSO with ADFS.
- Implemented tree-based user group hierarchy with inherited permissions and efficient ways of querying them utilizing the materialized path pattern.
- Introduced browser-driven end-to-end acceptance tests and contributed to overall test coverage boost up to 94%.
- Worked on a RESTful JSON API consumed by iOS and Android client applications.
- Migrated the application from Rails 4 to Rails 5.
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Unityaid Pty, Ltd.
- Led the development of a crowdfunding web application to successful launch in five months.
- Integrated Stripe Connect and credit card processing on behalf of merchant accounts which also involved support for multiple countries and currencies and refund processing using Stripe webhooks.
- Created a dashboard to monitor campaign progress and manage contributions.
- Developed and maintained an extensive integration and browser test suite covering major application features and workflows.
- Implemented a responsive UI, which proved to be a breaking point for the application as 66% of visitors are smartphone and tablet users.
Lead Ruby on Rails Developer
OK Venue, LLC
- Created a web application to create and manage events and sell tickets. Managed a successful product launch: hosting of New York SOHO International Film Festival screenings in 2013.
- Implemented a QR code ticket generation mechanism and ticket delivery via email (Postmark API), text message (Twilio API), and picture message (Mogreet API). Created and open-sourced a Ruby Gem for sending picture messages (MMS) with Mogreet.
- Integrated secure credit card processing with Braintree API using client-side encryption. Integrated ACH payments with Transmodus API, allowing event owners to withdraw ticket sales income.
- Architected and implemented REST microservices and embeddable Rails::Engine modules allowing for white labeling of the product.
- Implemented short URL tracking and analytics allowing event curators to identify the most efficient marketing campaigns, channels, and tastemakers.
- Led the development of a web application for activating and managing decoupled debit cards.
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
MD Consulting
- Created a web application for analyzing arbitrary multi-dimensional data using OLAP cubes.
- Developed a customizable dashboard for visualizing and analyzing complex financial data.
- Created custom UI web components using a Raphael JS library.
- Advised on the design and implementation of TextMagic API and Ruby wrapper library for sending text messages.
- Implemented a web scraper for importing and synchronizing job listings from http://nav.no into a Scandinavian job search index.
- Created a Facebook quiz application for Richmond University to help future students select their major subject based on quiz answers.
Ruby on Rails Developer
SmartSites, LLC
- Created a web application for grading and improving resumes.
- Implemented a scoring and profiling algorithm based on uploaded resume documents.
- Created a Ruby gem and web service hosted on Windows Server for analyzing MS Word documents using Win32 OLE interface.
- Developed a web application for creating online resumes.
Ruby on Rails Developer
Netronix, Inc.
- Developed a web application for remote monitoring of environmental data (including weather, wind, water quality, temperature, flow, and depth).
- Led the transition of a beta product to production state with its first paying customers.
- Created a multi-threaded Ruby server listening for measurement data sent by remote sensors over Iridium satellite. The costly satellite bandwidth required the development of a custom low-footprint communication protocol over TCP/IP.
- Implemented a customizable dashboard with real-time charts displaying incoming telemetry data.
- Provided a module allowing the user to remotely configure sensors via the web interface.
- Implemented alert rules and notification via SMS and/or email (like water depth at node y > x).
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Umongous, Inc.
- Developed the back end of a web application for online surveys.
- Implemented an anti-bot mechanism preventing bots from taking surveys.
- Created a logic and administration interface for demographic surveys.
- Redesigned key database schema entities and ActiveRecord objects for better maintainability.
- Optimized MySQL queries for high-traffic requirements using MySQL slow logs.
J2EE Designer and Developer
Infovide-Matrix
- Developed a functional tester in Eclipse RCP for a telecommunication company.
- Implemented a Corba-to-XML and XML-to-Corba object mapper based on XML Schema and IDL files.
- Wrote a mechanism for rendering message input forms in Eclipse RCP based on XML Schema.
- Designed and implemented a web application supporting recruitment workflow (WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server).
Java Developer in Pricing and Workflow
J.P. Morgan Chase
- Developed a complex Eclipse RCP option pricer application in the equity exotics and hybrids department.
- Conducted workflow modeling and implementation in BEA AquaLogic BPM.
- Designed and implemented a client-server application for publishing financial instruments.
- Integrated the client application with an external workflow server.
- Worked in Agile methodology involving daily scrums.
J2EE and PL/SQL Developer
Syndatis
- Designed and developed business process management (BPM) web applications that implement contract and expense workflows for pharmaceutical companies.
- Designed and implemented a module for the reconciliation of employee American Express credit cards.
- Analyzed business workflows and prepared functional and technical specifications in Waterfall methodology.
Experience
Hotwire Chat
https://github.com/mdominiak/hotwire-chatJungle Scout Market
InstantCashSweepstakes
http://instantcashsweepstakes.com/Utilizing Agent Teams in Grid Resource Brokering | Academic Publication
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~paprzyck/mp/cvr/research/agent_papers/MAGS_2007.pdfSelecting Grid-agent-team to Execute User-job — Initial Solution | Academic Publication
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~paprzyck/mp/cvr/research/agent_papers/ARES_2007.pdfEfficient Matchmaking in an Agent-based Grid Resource Brokering System | Academic Publication
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~paprzyck/mp/cvr/research/agent_papers/wisla_06.pdfUtilizing Agent Teams in Grid Resource Management ... | Academic Publication
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~paprzyck/mp/cvr/research/agent_papers/JVA_06.pdfSkills
Languages
SCSS, Ruby, HTML, SQL, HTML5, Sass, CoffeeScript, CSS3, Haml, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, SAML, Java, JRuby, XML, UML, C, C++, Lisp, Haskell, SAS, Python, ECMAScript (ES6), GraphQL
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails 5, Ruby on Rails 4, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Capybara, Bootstrap, Swagger, OAuth 2, minitest, Jest, Prototype Framework, Factory Girl, Apache Velocity, JUnit, Spring, Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), Cypress, Bootstrap 2, Bootstrap 3, Ruby on Rails 3, Stimulus, ActionCable, AngularJS, Angular
Libraries/APIs
Ruby ERB, Pusher, API Development, Resque, Ruby on Rails API, Nokogiri, CarrierWave, Devise, Highcharts, jQuery, Sidekiq, Stripe, WebRTC, PubNub, React, Twilio API, Braintree API, Selenium WebDriver, OmniAuth, Backbone.js, Raphaël, Delayed Job, Liquid, Stripe API, Stripe Connect API, Pundit, Facebook Login, Google Places API, Google Analytics API, Node.js, Rollbar, Moment.js, D3.js, Google Maps, Paperclip, Facebook API, Mandrill API, Mongoid, Twitter API, PayPal API, Vue
Tools
SemaphoreCI, GitHub, RSpec, NGINX, Google Analytics, AWS SDK, RuboCop, AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Capistrano, Git, Citus, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Airbrake, Torque, Eclipse RCP, Sublime Text 3, ITerm, Sentry, CircleCI, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Flowplayer, DataGrip, Pivotal Tracker, Slack, Sublime Text 2, Terminal, Litmus, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Turbo, Webpack, Chef, Amazon ElastiCache, Vagrant, AWS OpsWorks, Cucumber, Pentaho Mondrian OLAP Engine
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, REST, DRY, Object-oriented Design (OOD), Test-driven Development (TDD), Microservices, Scrum, Concurrent Programming, OLAP, Database Design, Parallel Programming, Distributed Programming, Software Testing, Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices Architecture, HIPAA Compliance, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, DevOps
Platforms
OpenTok, Heroku, Twilio, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Amazon EC2, Twitter, Linode, Jakarta EE, WebSphere, OS X, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, IBM WebSphere, Docker, New Relic
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, Memcached, PL/SQL, Oracle RDBMS, Microsoft SQL Server, XML Schema, Sphinx Search Engine, Amazon Aurora, Elasticsearch, MongoDB
Other
Ruby Gems, System Architecture, GitFlow, RESTful Web Services, APIs, Fitbit, Cloudflare, Algorithms, Data Structures, Google Tag Manager, Data Encryption, LDAP, Video Calling, Turbolinks, API Design, QR Codes, CanCan, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, CORBA, Stripe Sigma, Google Login, ActiveCampaign, iDevAffiliate API, Chrome Extensions, Pgcrypto, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Calculus, Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Probability Theory, Statistics, Software Engineering, Neural Networks, Image Recognition, Speech Recognition, Data Compression, Data-level Security, Highcharts Stock, Computer Science, Information Technology, Hotwire, System Testing, Integration Testing, Caching, GitHub Actions, WebSockets, Authorization, Amazon Route 53, TradingView
Education
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
Warsaw University of Technology - Warsaw, Poland