Experienced software developer with a strong back-end focus, specializing in Ruby on Rails, API development, and cloud technologies. Over the past several years, I've built and optimized complex systems for companies across various industries, from telecommunications to education and media.

Experience

KnowdeSoftware Engineer

2024 — 2026

InteliquentSr. Software Engineer

2021 — 2024

Chicago, Illinois, United States (remote)

dialogEDUSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

Florida, United States (remote)

* Implemented shopping cart to allow for selling/purchasing of courses.

* Integrated with 3rd party APIs to automatically report student progress

* Improved performance by SQL DB tuning

* Participated in hiring additional engineers.

* contributed to QA and clean code culture

M. Shanken CommunicationsSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2019

Greater New York City Area

● Built a complete CMS using Rails + React for the whisky tasting department.

● Improved reliability by introducing automated tests and optimizing database calls.

● Converted legacy Backbone SPA into React for easier progress.

● Significantly reduced code updating auth server from rails 4 to 6 among other

dependencies.

Tribeca Film Festival NYC, LLC (remote)Full Stack Engineer

2017 — 2018

Greater New York City Area

● Reduced operating costs by switching hosting provider, reconfiguring servers, caching, improving DB use, updating ruby 1.8 to 2.5, rails 3.2 to 6, removing/updating unnecessary/deprecated dependencies.

● Implemented Sketch views into HTML, CSS, jQuery, React each festival year

● Eased development effort by migrating from MongoDB to Postgresql.

● Built new features. Fixed existing bugs, significantly simplified and improved

admin CMS

Education

Flatiron School

Web Development

2014 — 2015

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Education

Web Development

Experience