Ruby on Rails application developer and API engineer with 7 years of experience. Focussed on security, service architecture & orchestration, and cloud deployments.
- API development using Ruby on Rails
- Postgresql and MySQL database engines
- Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes environments
- Security, authentication, and subscription billing
Software Architect - March 2016 to present - Vancouver, BC
- Multinational sports retailer - parent company of Hockey Community
- Project management and evangelism for Sport Places API
- Design and implement architecture & API for Sport Places
Software Engineer - April 2014 to present - Vancouver, BC
- Social media platform for recreational hockey players
- Back-end leader, managing all architecture and cloud services
- Database design, API development, infrastructure deployment
- Customer relations, support, sales, and business process design
Technical Community Manager & Software Engineer - May 2012 to April 2014 - Poole, UK
- Growing business building SaaS products for developers
- Developed and maintained features for popular SaaS product
- Industry leading support to a global customer base
- Sales and on-boarding, marketing, and community management
Technical Solutions Professional (Paid Internship) - July 2010 to August 2011 - Reading, UK
- Build and deploy product demo environments for Enterprise customers
- Provision servers, install client software, build demo solutions
- Assist Enterprise Sales teams to solve problems
Customer Assistant - May 2006 to May 2010 - Poole, UK
- Large grocery retailer
- Assisting shoppers with finding goods, and cash services
- Stock replenishment, delivery handling, in-store bakery
Bachelor's degree - 2008 to 2012 - Bournemouth, UK
- BSc Computing (Hons) 2:1
- Included 14 month internship at Microsoft
AS & A2 (A-levels) - 2006 to 2008 - Poole, UK
- A2-level: Computing, Electronics, Business
- AS-level: Mathematics
Ice cleaning crew 3 months - Vancouver, BC
- Local junior ice hockey team
- Cleaning the ice surface in TV timeouts
Recreation Assistant - 12 months - Poole, UK
- Local school for children with severe physical disabilities
- Helped kids enjoy team sports such as wheelchair basketball
References and more details available on request