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Ron Muth

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Glen Cove, NY, United States

Toptal Member Since

August 22, 2022

Ron is a software developer specializing in back-end and database development. For the last 25 years, he has architected some of the biggest applications in terms of functionality and user size. He has fixed scaling issues, mostly bottlenecked by tier 2 systems, moving them over to distributed enterprise designs and changing the supply chain management and continuous integration nature of their development environments. Ron also mentors anyone interested in learning, sharing his experiences.

IIS SOAP C#Visual Studio .NET ASP.NET .NET 4 Microsoft Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC C#.NET ASP.NET MVC 6 REST APIs Microservices Twilio .NET Core Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Portfolio

Integrated Solutions, Inc.

C#, SQL Server DBA, IIS, RabbitMQ, Docker, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

Merion Publications Inc.

VB, Networking, MacOS, Windows, IIS, Active Server Pages (ASP)...

Experience

C# - 20 years Microsoft SQL Server - 20 years SQL - 20 years Information Systems - 20 years Visual Studio - 20 years ASP.NET MVC 6 - 15 years MassTransit - 10 years Twilio - 10 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, RabbitMQ, C#, .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Microservices, Microservices Architecture

The most amazing...

...program I've made is a distance search in the 90s that understood natural barriers; a radius-based search on Long Island would get results in CT; mine wouldn't.

Work Experience

Full-stack Developer/Architect

1996 - PRESENT

Integrated Solutions, Inc.

Broke down a huge monolithic architecture into a microservices-based architecture for ICS.
Refactored all their systems to use a CMS, including web-based UIs, their interactive voice response telephony system, and all documents and email generation.
Reorganized software development procedures and practices to allow for company growth, including setting up supply chain management and introducing proper testing platforms, such as fully replicating the production environment in test and QA.
Implemented source control, ticket-based issue handling, and continuous integration services for Equinox.
Redesigned their web platform to use web services provided by IBM's WebSphere. This included retooling all application tiers and adding unit tests, mocking, and logging/tracing to all functionalities.
Wrote code and processed them to horizontally scale Yellowbook.com across multiple clusters in multiple data centers.
Moved the front end for an extremely expensive SunTech to ASP.NET, with an SQL Server at the back end for Yellowbook.com.
Migrated Yellowbook.com from Microsoft Access to Web UI, with SQL Server at the back end.

Technologies: C#, SQL Server DBA, IIS, RabbitMQ, Docker, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MassTransit, SOAP, REST, Jenkins, NuGet, ASP.NET MVC 6, Twilio, IVR, jQuery, jQuery UI, Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, Windows Services, ASP.NET, Azure SQL, Microsoft Visual Studio, ASP.NET MVC, Unit Testing, JavaScript, SQL Server 2017, C#.NET, HTML, CSS, Elasticsearch, UI Design, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Architecture, Blazor, Entity Framework, .NET 4, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes

Systems Manager

1991 - 1996

Merion Publications Inc.

Developed a contact management system to serve over 70 salespeople.
Oversaw all internal information technology needs for the company.
Created a subscription tracking package for tracking over 700,000 subscribers.
Built a mail managing system to automate the sorting and printing of the mailing labels according to USPS specs and reduce the postage cost to the absolute minimum.
Managed the company's IT support and development staff.

Technologies: VB, Networking, MacOS, Windows, IIS, Active Server Pages (ASP), Microsoft Visual Studio, JavaScript, SQL Server 2017, C#.NET, HTML, CSS, UI Design

Experience

Migration from Monolith to a Distributed Microservices Architecture for ICS

Moved a massive centralized monolithic application over to a distributed microservices architecture. The new architecture has dramatically improved the responsiveness of all application pieces, especially the web-based UI, and we've had customers calling in praising us for the changes.

Source Control Resources

I rebuilt all developer systems to use Jira, Jenkins, and SVN/GIT. Set up multiple testing environments and QA for internal IT testing. Once they pass those tests, it undergoes UAT (User Acceptance Testing) for end user testing before being pushed to production. All deployments were automated through Jenkins.

Web Forms for MVC Conversion

I managed and was hands-on with moving the client's systems over to MVC from a WebForms-based development. They are currently set up to use both MVC and webform-based pages interchangeably so that the user doesn't realize he is on a mixed site.

Skills

Languages

C#, C#.NET, SQL, VB, YAML, JavaScript, HTML, Active Server Pages (ASP), CSS

Frameworks

ASP.NET MVC 6, .NET, ASP.NET, .NET 4, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Blazor

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, jQuery, jQuery UI, Entity Framework

Tools

NuGet, Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, Git

Paradigms

REST, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, Event-driven Programming, Unit Testing, UI Design, DevOps

Platforms

Twilio, Windows, MacOS, Docker, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Web, Kubernetes

Storage

SQL Server 2017, SQL Server DBA, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Queue Storage, PostgreSQL, Azure Blobs, Azure SQL, Elasticsearch

Other

Information Science, IIS, MassTransit, SOAP, APIs, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), WCF Web Services, Architecture, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Networking, IVR, Windows Services, Cloud Architecture, Information Systems, Microsoft Azure

Education

1985 - 1990

Bachelor's Degree in Information Studies

Drexel University - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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