Yaron Guez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Yaron is a software architect, web developer, and entrepreneur based out of San Diego, CA with a decade of advanced programming experience and an ability to craft elegant solutions to complex problems. An active participant in the San Diego tech community and a co-organizer of the Advanced WordPress Meetup.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows Phone 8, XAMPP, Linux, Git, PhpStorm, OS X
The most amazing...
...product I've built from scratch was MedAdaptics, an algorithmic, response guided, cloud based medication therapy system for cancer patients.
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Software Architect
Crypteron
- Built SaaS architecture around turn key encryption solution for .NET developers.
- Built AngularJS dashboard for key management.
- Built public facing WordPress website with custom made theme.
- Custom integrations with Zoho CRM and Zoho Campaigns with AJAX interface.
- Designed and developed dynamic, scroll based animations for public website.
Chief Software Architect
MedAdaptics
- Architected algorithmic, response guided, cloud based medication therapy system for cancer patients.
- Developed MVC backend in PHP CodeIgniter.
- Developed dynamic front-end in Bootstrap.
- Converted static PSD into responsive, mobile optimized, W3C valid HTML5 and CSS with graceful degradation.
- Integrated custom live searching, sorting, filtering interface based off of DataTablesJS.
- Led interactive demo of application for potential investors, partners and customers including Fortune 500 companies.
- Built responsive, public facing website for potential investors, partners, and customers in WordPress.
Director of Technology
Trestian
- Co-founded a profitable, full service online strategy firm for businesses and start-ups.
- Leveraged existing client and freelance contacts to provide a suite of services including high impact digital design, custom web development, online marketing, and content creation.
- Launched and maintained cloud based VPS as a managed hosting solution for 30+ websites that includes daily incremental backups, unauthorized change notification, 404 detection, integrated CDN and Firewall, and framework and plugin upgrades.
- Created pixel perfect conversions of PSDs into custom WordPress themes.
- Developed custom WordPress plugins.
- Manage team of freelancers around the world.
- Built a WordPress based web application that allows EMTs to aquire a patient's emergency information via QR Code.
Head of Business Development
Rotby Laser Images Inc
- Co-run a company that sells a chemical process for restoring drums and rollers found in toner cartridges.
- Built WordPress website with integrated lead collection and comprehensive sales funnel.
- Created order-form-based eCommerce solution with integrated order helper.
- Turned a loss maker into a profitable company in under one year.
- Created and maintained dynamic sales and CRM process with a combination of Gravity Forms, MailChimp, and Boomerang for Gmail.
VP Digital Marketing
Karakter Entertainment
- Developed episodic media website for LoveSong World, an international media brand built around a reality dating show.
- Set up owned media properties for brand promotion.
- Converted custom designed PSD into custom WordPress theme.
- Integrated online marketing campaigns into owned media properties.
- Led and coordinated team of social media and online marketing associates.
Software Developer
Bridgewater Associates
- Developed client service software and web applications at the world's largest hedge fund.
- Architected and developed centralized data diagnostic system.
- Developed attribution calculation system.
- Developed automated report generation system.
- Overhauled software documentation and training materials.
- Convinced company to adopt integrated project management, bug tracking, and source control solution and led rollout.
- Underwent 8 month market mechanics training class.
- Underwent regular training in SDLC, Object Oriented Design Principles, UML, and more.
Product Manager
Fog Creek Software
- Participated in 12-week internship to develop and market a web application from scratch.
- Featured in documentary film "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks" which followed internship in parallel with the development of Reddit at Y-Combinator.
- Under the guidance of software management guru, Joel Spolsky, led marketing campaign for product.
- Oversaw branding, pricing, sales copy, press relations, and interface design.
- Organized and conducted extensive user acceptance testing.
Experience
MedAdaptics
Crypteron Homepage
https://crypteron.comRoyal Heart Website
WordPress Eventbrite Pro Plugin
PeaceLove Studios
http://peacelovestudios.comTrestian Portfolio
Diagnostic Logging Center
Skills
Languages
SQL, HTML5, C#, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, C#.NET, C, UML, C++
Frameworks
Bootstrap, CodeIgniter, Bootstrap 3, .NET, Knockout (Knockout.js), AngularJS, ASP.NET
Libraries/APIs
Doctrine 2, Modernizr, Eventbrite API, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Doctrine, REST APIs, Web API, Facebook API, jQuery UI
Paradigms
Responsive Web Design (RWD), Object-oriented Design (OOD), REST, ETL, Testing, Agile Software Development, Concurrent Programming, Scrum, Inversion of Control, Waterfall Development
Platforms
WordPress, Salesforce, cPanel, MacOS, Linux, YouTube, Twitter, SharePoint, Azure, OS X, XAMPP, Windows Phone 8, Windows, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MySQL, JSON, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Redis, NoSQL
Other
Mailchimp API, Software Development, Yahoo, User Experience (UX), Ajax, Cloudflare, DNS, Dom Manipulation, Caching, Gravity Forms, Data Modeling
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, TextMate, PhpStorm, Composer, DataTables, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, Camtasia, Git, Microsoft Visual Studio, Final Cut Pro, cURL Command Line Tool, Eclipse IDE, 3ds Max
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Yale University - New Haven, CT
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