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Roy Pfaffman, JavaScript Developer in Oakland, CA, United States
Roy Pfaffman

JavaScript Developer in Oakland, CA, United States

Member since June 28, 2017
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Roy Pfaffman, JavaScript Developer in Oakland, CA, United States
Roy Pfaffman

JavaScript Developer in Oakland, CA, United States

Member since June 28, 2017
Roy is a full-stack web developer with extensive experience in several Ruby and JavaScript frameworks and libraries, especially Ruby on Rails, Node, and React. He has learned to value efficiency and clear communication through his experience working with highly collaborative teams using the Agile methodologies, and he takes pride in writing code that is clear, extensible, and well-tested.
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Portfolio

Experience

  • JavaScript, 5 years
  • Ruby, 5 years
  • Object-oriented Programming (OOP), 5 years
  • Node.js, 4 years
  • Agile Software Development, 4 years
  • Ruby on Rails (RoR), 3 years
  • React, 2 years
  • React Native, 2 years
Oakland, CA, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, RubyMine, Xcode, Vim, Git

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is monitoring software for RabbitMQ, which would allow developers to locally trace AMQP messages across service-oriented architectures.

Employment

  • Software Engineer

    2016 - PRESENT
    Vevo
    • Built and maintained the company's main consumer-facing React/Redux media application deployed across multiple platforms, including Amazon FireTV, TiVo, Samsung TV, XBox One, Playstation 4, and Virgin Media.
    • Architected, built, and maintained a live music video playlist management service and front-end mobile web application.
    • Architected and built a service to perform automated end-to-end testing and simulation for user interaction.
    • Significantly refactored and maintained a consumer-facing application for Apple TV (third generation).
    Technologies: Node, React, Redux

  • Mentor

    2016 - 2016
    The Firehose Project
    • Mentored students in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, object-oriented programming, test-driven development, Agile practices, version control, algorithms, and data structures.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript

  • Software Engineer

    2014 - 2015
    Thanx
    • Architected and implemented a complete redesign of Thanx.com's website, using a Ruby on Rails back-end and BehaviorUI on the front-end.
    • Refactored authentication and transaction portions of a monolithic Rails application into maintainable, scalable services.
    • Built an Android mobile web application framework to allow the existing mobile web application to be deployed natively to Android.
    • Implemented analytics and marketing infrastructure for mobile web and Android applications as well as created the analytics management application, written in Ruby on Rails and BehaviorUI.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, BehaviorUI

  • Software Engineer

    2012 - 2014
    SocialChorus
    • Built and maintained a business-facing application for content management and analytics.
    • Created a responsive, highly-reactive consumer-facing front-end application, optimized for both desktop and mobile.
    • Built a consumer-facing mobile hybrid application to use Cordova to improve performance over existing mobile web application.
    • Separated out advertisement analytics logic into a separate service to communicate with the rest of service-oriented architecture using AMQP, written in Node.
    • Designed and built an AMQP monitoring application, providing coworkers with analytics and visibility into message traffic between services, written in Node.
    Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node, Backbone, Angular

Experience

  • Thanx.com (Development)
    http://Thanx.com

    Implemented a complete redesign of the Thanx.com website.

  • Vevo TV (Development)
    http://firetv.vevo.com

    Designed and built the Vevo TV web application, deployed across several different platforms, including FireTV, Samsung TV, VirginTV, and PS4.

Skills

  • Languages

    ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Sass, Less

  • Frameworks

    Redux, Express.io, React Native, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sinatra

  • Libraries/APIs

    React, Node.js, Backbone.js, Resque, AMQP

  • Tools

    Git, Webpack 2, Babel, Gulp.js, Subversion (SVN)

  • Paradigms

    Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Pair Programming, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Test-driven Development (TDD), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)

  • Storage

    PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, CouchDB

  • Other

    Hexagonal Architecture, WebSockets

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science
    2006 - 2010
    University of California: Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
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