Topher is available for hire

Topher Hunt

Verified Expert in Engineering

Web Development Developer

Location

Groningen, Netherlands

Toptal Member Since

August 2, 2019

Topher has over eight years of full-stack web development experience using PHP, Ruby on Rails, and more recently Elixir/Phoenix. He has a knack for working with complex data schemas in SQL and prides himself on thoughtful, thorough communication and a steady focus on the client's big-picture needs. Topher is passionate about writing highly expressive code that's easy to read and maintain.

Web Development Ruby on Rails (RoR)Elixir Phoenix Relational Databases CSS jQuery Ruby Git Sublime Text PostgreSQL Heroku HTML5 Linux JavaScript

Portfolio

Freelance

Git, Web Development, PostgreSQL, React, Phoenix, Elixir, Ruby on Rails (RoR)...

HolacracyOne

Git, Web Development, PostgreSQL, React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Lectica

Web Development, jQuery, MySQL

Experience

Web Development - 10 years Relational Databases - 10 years jQuery - 8 years Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 7 years Git - 7 years PostgreSQL - 6 years Elixir - 3 years Phoenix - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Heroku, Sublime Text, MacOS

The most amazing...

...app I've built is an online psychometric assessment platform with features for administering, scoring, reporting, and iterating on the assessments.

Work Experience

Rails and Elixir Developer

2014 - PRESENT

Freelance

Designed and built a data processing workflow to automate scoring, analysis, and PDF report generation for psychometric assessments.
Designed and prototyped a platform for capturing, coding, and analysis of large amounts of qualitative interview data, enabling a new form of social research.
Built a dynamic chart generator (using D3.js) that lets users explore highly dimensional data by selecting the desired axes and filters.
Developed a method for crawling a website and detecting all visual changes to the contained pages, using PhantomJS and ResembleJS.
Supported, maintained, and extended a system that scrapes and parses court case data and notifies subscribers when configurable alert criteria are matched.
Helped plan, build, test, and maintain a web scraper solution that uses ephemeral Amazon EC2 instances to process long-running background jobs.

Technologies: Git, Web Development, PostgreSQL, React, Phoenix, Elixir, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Partner and GlassFrog Developer

2017 - 2019

HolacracyOne

Tackled the fascinating problem of how to both 1) represent the current structure of an organization, and 2) represent proposed structural changes to the org structure, in a way that makes it easy to a) craft in a friendly "proposal builder" UI, b) detect conflicts between proposals, c) validate and execute, and d) summarize in human-readable terms after execution, even if the referenced records no longer exist.
Designed and built a range of Holacracy chat integration features using Slack's API.
Designed and built a daily contact list sync solution using ActiveCampaign's API.
Helped design and build a macOS (Swift) client for syncing organization data with OmniFocus.
Helped design and maintain a companion mobile app using React-Native.

Technologies: Git, Web Development, PostgreSQL, React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Lead Developer

2010 - 2014

Lectica

Created a system that transforms raw student assessment data into organized, heat mapped learning sequences, enabling a dramatically faster research and iteration cycle.
Designed and implemented a database schema for storing complex relational data on student demographics and assessment results.
Created and maintained an admin interface for the development, scoring, analysis, and reporting on multiple K-12 assessments across different domains of learning.

Technologies: Web Development, jQuery, MySQL

Experience

Reassembling the Line

https://github.com/topherhunt/reassembling-the-line

As co-founder of RTL, I developed a platform to capture, segment, categorize, and analyze video recordings, with the aim of introducing and validating a new form of social research for qualitative interview data. We use Elixir/Phoenix with judicious use of React and the HTML5 MediaRecorder API.

GlassFrog

https://www.glassfrog.com/product

GlassFrog is a data management platform built by HolacracyOne to help organizations adopt a solid Holacracy practice. I worked with the GlassFrog team to maintain GlassFrog, modernize the codebase, redesign legacy data structures, and build features for syncing and integrating organization data with Slack, ActiveCampaign, and OmniFocus.

Skills

Languages

Elixir, Ruby, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, GraphQL

Frameworks

Phoenix, Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Other

Web Development, APIs

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, React

Tools

Git, Sublime Text

Platforms

Heroku, MacOS, Linux

Storage

PostgreSQL, Relational Databases, MySQL

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Sociology

Middlebury College - Middlebury, VT, USA

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