References

Will provide contact info upon request

Jason Rudder, CTO of Trucoin.

Erik Dungan, software developer and entrepreneur.

Justin Neel, a freelance client (CE Briefs).

Steven Feaster, mobile software entrepreneur.

Programming / Web Work:

  • December 2017 - June 2018
    • Rails developer for Indeed Assessments (formerly Interviewed YC company)
      • Mostly backend, but some (Railsy) frontend as well.
      • Technologies used: Heroku, Postgres, Sidekiq, Ruby/Rails, RSpec/factory_bot/Capybara, Elasticsearch, New Relic/Scout, Bootstrap 4, Mixpanel/Amplitude, Pry
      • Learned React on the side, since they made heavy use of it
  • January 2016 - October 2017
    • Rails Web Developer for Under100 / Fame (employee)
  • Fall 2015
    • Contracted for Under 100 (now Fame) and CE Briefs
    • Built Dr Kodama in Swift and SpriteKit
    • More CE Briefs contract work
  • Summer 2015
    • Prepared CE Briefs (below) to handle large (3000+ nurse) hospitals and launch in general
    • Built Maybe - a social Geo-fencing app.
      • Apple Watch version is built - will be in the next submission.
      • Built in Swift, Firebase, and Node.js
      • Utilizes Apple’s Region Monitoring APIs for determining a user’s relation to various Geo-fences
  • Febuary 12 - May 15th 2015: Homeslice
    • Cordova / Polymer JS / Firebase / HTML/CSS developer
    • Some challenging projects I worked on while there:

  • September 2014: Built a client-tracking app for a local personal trainer, in Polymer JS and Firebase for/with Steven Feaster.

  • July/August 2014: Homeslice – helped convert a Rails/Postgres app to Firebase and Polymer JS

  • August 2013 - current – CE Briefs: a continuing education (via videos) app for nurses

    • Ongoing freelance gig for a local doctor
    • Built with Rails, Postgres, and Bootstrap, with a smattering of JS (Backbone/jQuery) on top.
    • Hosted on a Linode Ubuntu server (using Phusion Passenger and Nginx)
    • As of 9/21/2015, they have launched and are onboarding hospitals and nurses.

  • Jan.15 - March 4 2014: Front-end (Angular/JS/HTML/CSS) developer at Trucoin

  • Fall 2010 through early 2013 – Rails Intern / Contractor for APhotoFolio, working under Erik Dungan in San Luis Obispo
    • Main Rails/Backbone app I worked on while there:
      • EditDrop (the demo video is really old)
        • Built from scratch
        • Multi-tenant, thick client, Javascript (Coffeescript & Backbone) heavy web-app.
        • Rails on the back-end, mostly serving JSON
        • Postgres DB, utilizing Postgres’ schemas for each account/tenant
        • Backbone app is well tested with Jasmine.js
        • Rails app tested using Rspec, FactoryGirl, and Capybara.
        • Hosted on an Ubuntu Linux server (Rackspace Cloud)
    • I also worked on a variety of small entrepreneurial Rails apps with Erik, which are no longer extant.
  • Other work:
    • Summer 2012 – Built a demo Backbone app for a client
    • Spring 2011 – Built an internal Ruby app to aid San Luis Obispo County Real Estate Appraisers
      • This involved OCRing lots of documents and extracting data from them using Ruby scripts (and lots of regexes…)
    • 2009 – Designed and built demo web app for friend using Merb (Summer 2009)
    • Summer 2008 – Designed and built website for STMJ Appraisers

Extra Curriculars:

  • Attended Y Combinator’s Startup School 2014
  • Attended TwilioCon 2012
    • Won the Singly prize in the hackathon… though that may have been due to being the only group that used their service!
  • Attended Google IO 2009 with UCSB College of Creative Studies
  • Stayed at the Palo Alto Hacker House for two weeks during the summer of 2009
  • Attended DEF CON 2007 with Cuesta College Computer Science Club

Experience

  • Ruby & Rails: 5+ years
    • RSpec & factory_bot unit testing
    • Integration testing with Capybara
  • Front-end Javascript & Coffeescript
    • React
    • jQuery
    • Backbone.js and client-side MV* experience
      • includes integration/unit testing with Jasmine
    • Angular
    • Some Ember
    • Polymer JS
  • Postgres & SQL
  • Android:
    • Android class in 2011; app
    • an extremely simple app I built to re-learn Android fundamentals
  • iOS:
    • iOS class in 2011app
    • Maybe (as detailed above)
    • Convo Tracker Another simple app :). This time to learn Apple Watch dev.
  • Light experience:
    • Redis (with Resque/Sidekiq)
    • Node.js
    • MongoDB
    • HTML5 Canvas
    • Python (some Django and app engine)

Formal Education

  • San Luis Obispo High School, class of ‘05
  • Cuesta College
  • University of California at Santa Barbara

Degrees

  • BA Greek and Roman Classics 2011, UCSB

Relevant CS Courses:

  • Cuesta College:
    • Fall 11 - Mobile Device Programming (iOS)
    • Spring 11 - Mobile Device Programming (Android)
    • Spring 08 - Fundamentals of Computer Science III (More Algorithms/Data Structures)
    • Spring 08 - Fundamentals of Computer Science II (Algorithms/Data Structures)
    • Spring 07 - Fundamentals of Computer Science I (C, Java, OO)
    • Spring 07 - C Programming Language
  • UCSB:
    • Spring 09 - Software Engineering for Embedded and Mobile Systems
    • Spring 09 - Web Application Competition (Django)
  • Other
    • Coursera’s Introduction to Databases
      • I didn’t complete all of the exercises, but watched all of the videos and (I feel) adequately digested the lessons.