Web & iOS engineer
2017–present
- As a member of the Digital Subscriptions team, developed and maintained mission-critical, Rails-backed systems to manage paywalls and subscriber services at enterprise scale for 10 major news brands and countless smaller properties, including the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News
- Ported legacy serverside Java code to modern Ruby
Proprietor + Web & iOS Developer at Atomic Promise
2010–present
- Planned, developed and deployed full stack applications for large and small clients in the U.S., Canada and Israel
- Integrated payment gateways and APIs (including Stripe, Braintree, PayPal and Segpay) with web and mobile apps
- Localized and internationalized Rails apps in English and French
- Pair programmed with and managed remote contractors worldwide
2008–2010
- Planned and executed a complete standards-compliant visual and code-level overhaul of Elks.org, used by nearly one million Elks nationwide
- Designed, implemented, tested and deployed a flexible, dynamic system for Elks National Foundation scholars to apply for scholarships
Skills, Languages & Frameworks
- Backend development with Rails, Sinatra and node.js
- Frontend development with modern, vanilla JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3
- Well-versed in iOS development in both Swift and Objective-C
- Fanatical about source control with
git and testing with rspec - Devops experience deploying Docker-based cloud applications, as well as configuration and maintenance of EC2 instances
- Published newspaper reporter
- 日本語がちょっと分かります。
Education
MSJ, New Media Journalism (2006–2007)
- Reported–in both multimedia and print–on consumer affairs for the Medill News Service.
- Led a Yahoo!-funded team tasked with revamping the web presence of the Chicago Filmmakers, with an emphasis on multimedia and social integration