

Russell Colin Allen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Web Development Developer
Russell is a highly passionate and motivated software developer who enjoys creating innovative and scalable web and desktop applications. He has worked on numerous open-source projects and prides himself on his capacity to adapt to different technologies and stacks. Russell is looking forward to using his skills and expertise to help others achieve their goals.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Node.js, WebStorm
The most amazing...
...programming experience I've had was when I was invited to Taiwan to participate in the HackNTU international hackathon and won third place with my team.
Work Experience
Back-end Developer
Signs365.com
- Developed a microservice architecture collaborating with other developers to replace a legacy application while offering a compatible API.
- Developed support for a new product: printing on hard cards. I updated the existing code to support new printing layouts and requirements as determined by the product team.
- Investigated various technologies to construct a new stack according to the engineering requirements using Seneca, Express, Docker Kubernetes, and other systems.
- Developed a fully functioning authorization library in Node.js with complete Jest test coverage.
Founder and Lead Developer
Mod Picker, LLC
- Built a private RESTful API back end in Ruby on Rails using MySQL as the database and Devise for authentication. Created a public-facing API to be consumed by other developers using API tokens.
- Designed a database schema with 79 tables and 149 relationships.
- Developed an AngularJS front-end single-page application from the ground up with 104 directives, 69 services, and 74 views.
- Created a JSON templating library built off of ActiveModel serialization.
- Produced 25 index pages with hundreds of filters and dozens of sorting options.
- Created a dynamic AngularJS data table display system for sorting and displaying data based on simple column configuration.
- Designed a tagging system that allows crowd-sourced tagging of content with searching, allowing users to find content that excludes or includes certain tags.
- Created a grid and list-based drag-and-drop mod list management tool, with built-in recognition and automatic resolution options for ordering and compatibility issues.
- Developed a desktop application in C# for generating analyses of video game modifications to Bethesda games, including analysis of file structure, nested archive contents, and Bethesda plugin files.
- Built a DLL with Delphi, wrapping around an existing codebase to generate reports on Bethesda plugin files.
Web Developer
Click-Thru Consulting
- Built a platform for managing clients with Ruby on Rails.
- Worked with a client to create a MySQL database with a dozen tables.
- Devised a 3-role system for clients, client service representatives, and platform administrators with CanCanCan.
- Designed an automatic mailer so that representatives could start the process of signing a client up for a service quickly and easily.
- Developed a fully dynamic system for creating and managing services so that platform administrators could add or remove services as needed without requiring the help of a developer.
Software Development Intern
Invoca, LLC
- Contributed to Backdraft, a wrapper around Backbone.js providing jQuery DataTables integration and Plugin Framework.
- Collaborated with a Scrum team to evaluate and track user stories through development.
- Participated in a company hackathon, where my team won first place for creating a new reporting system.
Experience
zEdit
https://github.com/z-edit/zeditSevenZipExtractor
https://github.com/adoconnection/SevenZipExtractor/pull/4File Format Parser
https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-format-parserCVoxelEngine
https://github.com/matortheeternal/CVoxelEngineEcoNode — Environmentally Aware Mesh Network
https://sbhacks.devpost.com/submissions/32393-eco-nodeSkills
Languages
ECMAScript (ES6), GraphQL, HTML, Sass, JavaScript, Delphi, CSS, Ruby, C#, SQL, Markdown, TypeScript, XML, Python, Java, Lua, C++, Octave, Bash, PHP
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), AngularJS, Electron, YARN, .NET, .NET Core, UI-Router, Jest, Jasmine, Express.js, Swagger, JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Node.js, Sidekiq, Devise, AREL, CanCanCan, Nokogiri, React, Rollup.js, Seneca.js, Yup
Tools
RubyMine, Git, NPM, GitHub, Trello, WebStorm, Gulp, Eclipse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio, DataTables, Rollup, Grunt, Jira
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Scrum, Unit Testing, Agile Software Development, REST, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
Desktop, Windows, Linux, Docker, Android, Firebase
Storage
JSON, MariaDB, MySQL, Redis, NeDB, RDBMS
Other
Web Development, APIs, Embarcadero RAD Studio, DLL, Leadership, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Open Source, Data Compression, 3D Graphics, Charts
Education
Coursework towards a Degree in Computer Science
Santa Barbara City College - Santa Barbara, California
Coursework in Physics
UCSB - Santa Barbara, California