Rob Cameron

San Marcos, California, United States

Member since March 17, 2015

Rob has a rare skill set combining development and design. He's able to work on the entire web stack from design, UI and front-end engineering to back-end services and APIs and to setting up servers and deployment. He believes in simple, elegant, and streamlined solutions.

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Portfolio

The Active Network
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, JavaScript
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Angular.js, MySQL
Codestarter
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Haml, Sass, Stripe, AWS

Experience

HTML, 15 years
JavaScript, 15 years
CSS, 12 years
Ruby, 9 years
Ruby on Rails (RoR), 9 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS), 8 years
Responsive Web Design (RWD), 2 years
Elasticsearch, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mac, Git, Sublime Text

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded was a real-time activity stream API/front-end for a company with 40+ web apps and millions of daily users.

Employment

Software Engineer (Contractor)
The Active Network
2014 - 2015
- Responsible for upgrading a live production instance of Elasticsearch from 0.90 to 1.3, including updating a customer-facing Rails-based API.
- Implemented functionality to both Ruby on Rails back-end and the custom JavaScript framework front-end.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, JavaScript
Software Engineer (Contractor)
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
2014 - 2014
- Worked on the company’s medication adherence application, both the Rails back-end and Angular.js front-end.
- Recreated a patient/physician information site including an HTML5 WYSIWYG editor to allow the product manager to make changes without a developer. The entire site was finished in two weeks.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Angular.js, MySQL
Principal Software Engineer
Codestarter
2013 - 2014
- Took over from a contract implementation and added Stripe integration and an email system in three days to meet a launch deadline.
- Solely responsible for development, design, deployment, you-name-it, reporting directly to the CEO.
- Implemented a simple inventory/shipping process for getting dozens of laptops in the door and back out to kids as quickly as possible.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Haml, Sass, Stripe, AWS
Principal Software Engineer
Popexpert, Inc
2012 - 2013
- Founding team member, lead developer, and sole designer for the entire popexpert.com web app.
- Integrated Stripe payment processing as well as custom conference calendaring and scheduling UI, both front-end and back-end.
- Integrated peer-to-peer WebRTC audio/video conferencing through third-party providers and from scratch.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sass, WebRTC, AWS
Senior Software Engineer
The Active Network
2006 - 2012
- Mentored a half-dozen new developers as they learned Ruby to rebuild active.com from scratch.
- Lead developer and mentor for Active Educate school accounting software. Rebuilt the application from scratch in Ruby on Rails while training two other developers with no previous Ruby experience.
- Built Active Timeline: a real-time feed of user activity across dozens of Active’s web properties. Created a Sinatra app that accepted data via a RESTful API and presented it via API or HTML.
- Lead developer and mentor for Active Trainer, an online fitness and activity tracker. Rebuilt an existing Java application from scratch in Ruby on Rails in record time while training 4 other developers with no Ruby experience.
- Started the Light Engineering Group to prototype new products and bring various ideas to life on super tight deadlines and with maximum quality. Ask about Active Realtime, Jungle, Active Widgets, and others.
- Responsible for UI and UX on the company’s flagship active.com site.
- First at a company of hundreds of developers to use AJAX, to build anything in Ruby and Rails (which later became a cornerstone for new development), to consume and create RESTful web services, and to deploy production applications on AWS.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Haml, Sass, MySQL, Oracle, AWS

Experience

Popexpert (Development)
Popexpert provides one-on-one video meetings with experts to help you learn something new and connect with others no matter where you live.

I was a founding team member, working remotely from my home in Southern California while the rest of the team was based in San Francisco. I was solely responsible for design and was one of two developers for the first 8 months of the product's life (a third developer was then brought on).

At the time we created the product WebRTC had only officially launched in the Chrome dev channel and wouldn't be publicly available for a couple of months. We knew this was the direction we wanted to go so we went forward. Our solution worked great but we later replaced it with a third-party who specialized in only WebRTC so we could focus on other areas of the site.
Shared Decision-making (Development)
http://sdm.care4today.com
An information site for patients to learn about certain medical procedures and provides a starting point for a conversation with their doctor.

The site is a simple Ruby on Rails app but includes the Mercury HTML5 WYSIWYG editor (http://jejacks0n.github.io/mercury). The content team can log in, make live changes to the page (no need to shuttle off to a separate CMS system), and have them appear instantly.

This was a last-minute project and the whole thing was completed in just under two weeks.
Codestarter (Development)
Codestarter helps get laptops for kids who want to learn to code but don't otherwise have access to a computer. I was a founding member and was solely responsible for design and development. We accepted donations via Stripe, purchased $200 Acer Chromebooks, flashed them with a custom install of Ubuntu and then shipped them off to lucky kids.

Skills

Languages
HTML, CSS, Ruby, JavaScript
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sinatra, Bootstrap 3, Grape
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Capistrano, MailChimp, Sublime Text 3, Sketch
Libraries/APIs
Backbone.js, Stripe, jQuery
Paradigms
Responsive Web Design (RWD), Metaprogramming, Test-driven Development (TDD), Agile Software Development
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MySQL, SQLite, CouchDB
Misc
Elasticsearch

Education

Partially completed degree in Computer Arts
State University of New York, Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
1996 - 1998

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