Staff Software Engineer

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I have over a decade of professional software engineering experience leading and managing teams, building applications, and mentoring others. I am a growth mindset individual with an intense desire to learn, grow, teach, and mentor.

I have experience in...

10 year scale, ordered with most recent experience first.

RUBY ON RAILS

RUBY

REACT

WORDPRESS

PYTHON

ELIXIR

NODE

POSTGRESQL

JAVASCRIPT + JQUERY

MYSQL

PHP

C# + .NET

…and more.

Work Experience

November 2019 - July 2020

Recursive

Freelance Consultant.

Contract-based consulting on your project needs. I partner with you and your team on your business and project goals, create a detailed project plan, and help build your dreams.

October 2018 - December 2019

Abstract

Staff Software Engineer.

Culture Contribution
– Encouraged the adoption of a Company Code of Conduct or Code of Ethics to augment the company’s core values.
– Hosted open pairing hours for anyone in the company. Some examples of topics: helping goal set for all-level career developers; pair programming on features in React, Go, and Ruby; digging into weird bugs; and knowledge transfers.

Company Success Contributions
– Continuously made improvements to internal tooling, increasing productivity and day-to-day interactions for our support staff.
– Regularly interacted with Support staff, answering their questions to better serve our customers.
– Mentored other developers and engineers in technical skills and creating career goals for short-, mid-, and long-term.
– Offered insights and ideas for improving different areas of the product and company, such as better auditing.
– Aided our Sales staff with their Salesforce integration, increasing confidence in marketing and outreach opportunities.

Technical Contribution
– Regularly collaborated with team members, department heads, and principal engineers on new features across all functional areas in the product.
– Led and collaborated on Enterprise features, such as SSO, JIT, and SCIM, and support Enterprise customers with their questions.
– Continually unblocked colleagues by doing twice-daily code reviews, pairing when requested or needed, and kept open Slack / Calendar policies.
– Implemented billing portal in preparation for the new PSD2 Payment Regulations, to ensure the company can continue accepting payments from our EU customers.
– Contributed to thorough and extensive documentation.
– Planned, built, and introduced a 2-Year term subscription plan model for Enterprise customers.
– Helped manage and support Sales with code integration between Salesforce and Abstract.

March 2018 - September 2018

Planning Center Online

Senior Software Engineer.

– Created and implemented TeamTrain, an open source Slack application that creates a virtual break room chat.
– Designed and built new, well-engineered features to bring to customers, working effectively in a highly cohesive team.
– Continuously kept developer documentation up-to-date and contributed with new information.
– Contributed ideas and strategies toward the company vision, such as Mental Health policies and remote work relationship building.
– Encouraged mentorship programs to be established for growth and development of new and current employees.

February 2015 - February 2018

Collective Idea

Senior Software Engineer.

– Partnered closely with clients on their projects, solving their problem with well thought out technical solutions.
– Consistently delivered high-quality code and documentation to the client.
– Facilitated weekly one-on-one’s: set goals, provided accountability, created calm and trusting environments for productive conversation.
– Integrator for the Internship Program: mentored interns, encouraged and coached employees on mentoring interns, ensured program was meeting goals, and set and ran weekly meetings.
– Contributed to company-created open source repositories.

August 2014 - January 2015

SpinDance

Software Consultant.

– Advised other project leads on programming best practices, security practices, and design input.
– Created and implemented a development process for Ruby on Rails development, including code reviews and approvals.
– Developed and implemented a deployment process with Ops and our clients for quick and consistent deploys while maintaining the highest level of communication.
– Added robust features and fixed gnarly bugs in an evolving server API.
– Designed a plan for unifying several paths of the server API and aided in designing the strategy for scaling the server API.
– Implemented the Works With Nest partner integration.

July 2013 - July 2014

Cerner Corporation

Ruby Consultant and Software Engineer.

– Implemented multiple aspects of an evolving healthcare Ruby on Rails application.
– Provided Ruby technical expertise to the team.
– Collaborated with development team on new features and bug fixes.
– Regularly led demos of new feature work for stakeholders.
– Worked on a two-week agile system with development release cycles.
– Synchronized external services API into Ruby objects for use in the application.
– Attended daily scrum meetings, bi-weekly iteration checkups, and bi-weekly story pointing and iteration planning meetings.

January 2012 - June 2013

Davenport University

Web Developer.

– Created, designed, and implemented fully functional and versatile web applications both as a team and individually.
– Provided support and applications for a variety of departments on campus.
– Managed and supported both current and legacy applications as needed.
– Provided GREAT Customer Service through ticketing system and project correspondences.

Staff Software Engineer

I have experience in...

Work Experience

Laura Mosher LLC

Recursive

Abstract

Planning Center Online

Collective Idea

SpinDance

Cerner Corporation

Davenport University

Graduation

Calvin College

Open Systems Technology

Calvin College Information Technology

Acton Institute

Professional Computing Resources (PCR)

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