Technical Lead
2022 - PRESENTResearch Laboratory- Led a team of 6-8 remote developers, including contractors and employees.
- Brought non-running test suite back to life and increased test coverage.
- Collaborated with scientists to help define and address software requirements.
- Revamped the build and deploy process, deployed a single consistent image to all environments, and addressed security vulnerabilities by making it easy to upgrade libraries.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Turbo, minitest, Docker, Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Stimulus, Mentorship & Coaching, Server-side Rendering, Amazon Web Services (AWS), RuboCop, Design Patterns, Clean Code, SQL, Best Practices, Data ModelingRuby on Rails Engineer
2021 - 2022SaaS HR Platform- Rewrote a search index job to cut a 30-hour process down to one hour, using parallel processing and batching calls to remote services.
- Built a custom Elasticsearch adapter for the Graphiti library to enable JSON API-compliant endpoints to be backed by a search index.
- Refactored legacy code to enable logic reuse during the transition from Ember front end to React and retired unused code from the legacy application.
- Reduced RSpec test time by more than 50% while increasing code coverage.
- Mentored a small team of developers learning Ruby on Rails.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails API, Ruby on Rails 5, RSpec, Elasticsearch, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, SQL, Kubernetes, Mentorship & Coaching, Graphiti, RuboCop, Docker, Design Patterns, Docker Compose, Clean Code, Best Practices, Data ModelingRuby on Rails Engineer
2020 - 2020Fortune 500 Retailer- Brought in best practices to a small group working in spreadsheets and reporting tools without much support from IT. Stressed the importance of automation and test environments in mitigating risk.
- Designed an application to capture user requests (previously sent by email), enable approval workflow, and apply updates programmatically (previously done with manual SQL statements).
- Built Ruby on Rails API for an application using a PostgreSQL database and a Redis Cache.
- Wrote a Docker build file for deployment to Kubernetes.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), PostgreSQL, Redis, Best Practices, Enterprise Application Design, Docker, RSpec, RuboCop, Ruby on Rails API, Ruby on Rails 5, Design Patterns, Docker Compose, Clean Code, Data ModelingRuby on Rails Engineer
2019 - 2020Agricultural Supply Chain Platform- Refactored code to standardize and encapsulate the generation of accounting entries.
- Worked with the development team to focus on unit testing first. The effort helped to speed up tests by 30%.
- Designed and built flexible contract templates to allow pricing to be defined at multiple levels across multiple harvests.
- Created monthly farmer statements showing inventory and processing information.
- Updated the developer setup to use Docker for the database to remove the need for local installation. Enabled development on Linux and made the database upgrade easy for the development team.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails API, Clean Code, RSpec, Docker, RuboCop, Ruby on Rails 5, Design Patterns, Docker Compose, Best Practices, Data ModelingRuby on Rails Engineer
2017 - 2019Fortune 500 Retailer- Architected a product catalog to support multiple roles, each defined by business users. The configuration was collected in a Ruby on Rails app that turned it into both serializers for the API and a contract for the SPA front end.
- Crafted a Docker Compose file for developers to run the application with a Sinatra app, a database (PostgreSQL), a cache (Redis), a search index, and five Rails apps. Included proxy server so individual local services would automatically switch over.
- Designed a custom ETL framework to capture data from disparate systems, including web services, flat files, and external databases. Built in Ruby on Rails, which enabled developers to quickly map from source data to a consolidated data model.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Stimulus, Enterprise Application Design, Clean Code, RSpec, RuboCop, Server-side Rendering, Full-stack, Ruby on Rails API, APIs, Design Patterns, Docker Compose, Best Practices, Data ModelingRuby on Rails Engineer
2014 - 2017E-tailer Startup- Designed and built a framework to enable data to be published to multiple external systems. Each of the 20+ endpoints could have different triggers, target types (file, SOAP, and web services), formats (JSON and XML), and size thresholds.
- Developed an inventory management platform and enabled an e-tailer to manage the availability of both drop ship and owned inventory.
- Converted and cleaned up redundant SKU data to enable double dropdowns (size, color, finish, etc.) on the product display page.
- Built a Java-based service to find similar products. Implemented the related products feature on the consumer website.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), MySQL, Docker, RuboCop, RSpec, APIs, Java, Server-side Rendering, Full-stack, Ruby on Rails API, Design Patterns, Data Modeling