Software Engineer
2016 - PRESENTVevo- 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, ReduxMentor
2016 - 2016The 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, JavaScriptSoftware Engineer
2014 - 2015Thanx- 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, BehaviorUISoftware Engineer
2012 - 2014SocialChorus- 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
Roy Pfaffman
Software 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.
Roy is now available for hire
Portfolio
- VevoNode, React, Redux
- The Firehose ProjectRuby on Rails, JavaScript
- ThanxRuby on Rails, BehaviorUI
Experience
- Object-oriented Programming (OOP) 5 years
- JavaScript 5 years
- Ruby 5 years
- Agile Software Development 4 years
- Node.js 4 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) 3 years
- React 2 years
- React Native 2 years
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
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, LessFrameworks
Redux, Express.io, React Native, Ruby on Rails (RoR), SinatraLibraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Backbone.js, Resque, AMQPTools
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, CouchDBOther
Hexagonal Architecture, WebSockets
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science2006 - 2010University of California: Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
