Matt Brictson
Verified Expert in Engineering
Open Source Developer
Matt has worked as a consultant for many clients over the past 10+ years. In that time, he has designed UIs, managed scope and deliverables for large IT projects, mentored small teams with agile practices, advised bootstrapped startups, and built a number of successful Ruby on Rails applications.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Trello, Git, Ubuntu, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've coded was the encrypted storage back-end for a multi-tenant app, with good documentation and a comprehensive and fast-running test suite.
Work Experience
Ruby on Rails Freelancer
Matt Brictson Consulting
- Worked as an independent freelancer, specializing in building SaaS and business applications using Ruby on Rails.
- Developed and continued to support Monkey Box, a highly-secure password inventory.
- Designed and implemented a customer registration and billing portal for a established company that wanted to expand their business from B2B to B2C.
- Built new features for a number of different web apps, all on very aggressive timelines.
- Provided clients with the skills of a senior Rails programmer, an efficient project management process, and an appreciation for good UX.
Co-Founder
55 Minutes Inc.
- Co-founded a boutique consultancy that worked for many clients for over 10 years to build ambitious web projects of various shapes and sizes.
- Developed a patent inventory web app for a large Silicon Valley technology company with responsibilities that included making several optimizations using caches, background processing, and custom SQL to achieve sub-second response times when generating complex ad-hoc reports.
- Led a development team that designed and built a digital asset inventory web app for a large media company.
- Built the Robot Cloud Dashboard (formerly Device Scout), which is a web-based visual inventory of Macs and iOS devices.
- Designed user interfaces and managed scope and deliverables for large IT projects, mentored small teams with agile design and development practices, advised startups launching SaaS products, and built many successful Ruby on Rails applications.
Technical Specialist
WebWare Corp
- Led the development of a fresh web UI to revitalize a legacy product, using a SOAP API to connect the two. Used Java and an MVC web framework (Struts) to build the product using an XP (Extreme Programming) process.
- Built a bulk image delivery and workflow tool in Python that connected WebWare's digital asset management product to external FTP sites, allowing an advertising agency to deliver large high resolution source files to its client, a major U.S. auto manufacturer.
- Traveled to customer data centers to install and troubleshoot enterprise software on Solaris systems using Oracle databases.
Experience
Airbrussh
https://github.com/mattbrictson/airbrusshRails-Template
https://github.com/mattbrictson/rails-templateCapistrano-MB
https://github.com/mattbrictson/capistrano-mbChandler.rb
https://github.com/mattbrictson/chandler/Unit tests are included in this file, along with Minitest's autorun feature, so the user only needs to run the file with Ruby 2.1 or newer, and the unit tests will execute and pass.
Skills
Languages
Ruby, Java, Python, Sass, SQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
Frameworks
minitest, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Capybara, Bootstrap 3
Libraries/APIs
Pundit, Sidekiq, Paperclip, Devise, Stripe, Web API, Rollbar, jQuery, Highcharts, PayPal API
Tools
Sublime Text 3, rbenv, Capistrano, Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitHub, Trello, VCR, Papertrail, Pry, Bundler, RSpec, Git, CKEditor, SimpleCov, JBuilder, Slack, NGINX
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Software Development, Functional Programming, Continuous Delivery (CD), REST, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), DevOps, UI Design, Agile Project Management
Platforms
MacOS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Linux, Ubuntu, Oracle, Mandrill, Heroku
Other
Software Development, Documentation, SaaS, Writing & Editing, Open Source, i18n, API Design, ActiveAdmin, Security, Wireframing, Faraday, Development
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, JSON, Redis
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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