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Phil Meta, Software Developer in Austin, TX, United States
Phil Meta

Software Developer in Austin, TX, United States

Member since April 21, 2015
Phil is a full-stack engineer specializing in front-end development. He has a keen eye for UI design as well as a strong math and computer science background. He has several years of professional experience, ranging from small contract jobs to longer term roles such as one of the lead developers for Groupon's Merchant Center. He is passionate about well-designed code and adheres to the practices of Agile development, DRY, and modularization.
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Experience

Location

Austin, TX, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

SublimeText + Chrome + Terminal on OS X

The most amazing...

...software I've built uses genetic algorithms and other stochastic techniques to find optimal 2D representations of undirected graphs

Employment

  • Web Developer

    2015 - 2016
    Clustrix (via TopTal)
    • Built the front-end for a comprehensive dashboard for database customers.
    Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3, Ruby on Rails

  • Software Engineer - Front-end

    2011 - 2013
    Groupon
    • Helped design the architecture for and implement the new Merchant Center.
    • Created a customizable charting framework with Raphael.js to match the new Merchant Center L&F.
    • Created an interactive impact report for merchants to visualize their deal's ROI.
    • Helped design and create the redemption center with added support for barcode scanners and bulk redemption from CSV.
    • Assisted in the internationalization of the Merchant Center.
    • Helped create the Merchant Center Demo site for prospective merchants.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, OO JavaScript with Backbone.js, Raphael.js Handlebars, Sass

  • Contract Employee

    2011 - 2012
    Centauri Medical (now Leaf Healthcare)
    • Designed and developed the front-end system for hospitals to monitor patients with Leaf devices.
    • Created a tabular interface for monitoring multiple patients in groups, such as by floor or hospital wing.
    • Created a real-time updating chart for monitoring the device activity for a given patient.
    • Created an automatic data generation and simulation tool for testing and development.
    • Helped identify use-case scenarios for the leaf medical device.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, OO JavaScript with Backbone.js, Raphael.js

Experience

  • Clustrix GUI (Development)
    http://imgur.com/a/Kxd2b

    An interactive dashboard for customers of Clustrix. Allows the monitoring and modification of their database with advanced charting, analytics, and querying capabilities. Features a clean UI built on bootstrap, custom charting built with D3, and a robust back-end with Ruby on Rails.

  • Groupon Merchant Center (Development)

    A place for Groupon's merchants to view analytics about their deals performance, customer feedback, payment information, and more.

    Core front-end developer from 2011-2013

  • EvoGraph (Development)

    A web application demo of the EvoGraph project, using stochastic optimization to come up with 2D drawings of undirected graphs.

  • Mephisto (Development)

    A demo of the charting and technical analysis software I created to help me with my automated stock-trading program.

Skills

  • Languages

    Pug, CSS3, HTML5, Sass, Less, SCSS, Haml, JavaScript, C#, Python, Java, SQL

  • Libraries/APIs

    jQuery, Node.js, D3.js, Backbone.js, Handlebars, HTML5 Canvas, Google Maps, Raphaël

  • Tools

    Adobe Photoshop, Git, Stylus, Adobe Illustrator, Mercurial, Mongoose, Google Analytics

  • Other

    PSD Slicing, Software Development, Front-end Development, Cloudinary

  • Frameworks

    Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Express.js, Angular

  • Paradigms

    Responsive Web Design (RWD), Agile Software Development, JavaScript MV* Framework, Continuous Integration (CI), Functional Programming, Test-driven Development (TDD), Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  • Storage

    MongoDB, SQLite, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS S3

  • Platforms

    OpenShift, Heroku

Education

  • Master's degree in Software Engineering
    2010 - 2011
    Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley - Mountain View, CA
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
    2006 - 2009
    Washington University in St. Louis - St. Louis

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