Software Developer in Anchorage, AK, United States

A video chat application that integrates Twilio, Stripe Connect, WebRTC technology, and Dwolla. It is a project that will be released for both Android and iOS. It has a Node back-end server that I also wrote that performs the integrations with the various services and uses PostgresSQL+Sequelize for data persistence.

Rewrote a Laravel application for client FirstImage to bring the code up to functional, modern standards, and performed extensive back-end integration with WordPress, InfusionSoft, and Stripe.

A location aware messaging app written from the ground up in Swift for iOS.

iPhone app written in React Native that makes it dead simple for people to contact their representatives. Available on both iOS and Android.

An iOS native/Swift iPhone app that helps piano tuners visualize harmonic partials and find beat rates for aural tuning.

A ReactBootstrap form helper that has an assistant class that handles common tasks like handling form state and validation, and some useful wrapper components that provide features like add-ons, markings for required components, help blocks, etc.

Built a web app in Node/React/Redux that helps people plan and schedule meditative retreats.

Used Node to query Google Maps APIs to perform a study on the impact of moving headquarters locations on the employees of Sonos.

PHP/WordPress. Designed and built a custom WordPress plugin for Sound Web Solutions that allowed them to customize the information sent to PayPal during a GravityForms checkout procedure.

Updated the OS X GUI according to client specs and debugged low-level C/C++ IOKit USB code to fix issues related to the control center connecting to and updating from a USB device (a GPS location recorder called Pro Start). Also debugged and fixed an issue that had broken their firmware updating capability on the OS X app.

Designed and implemented a stateless Pub/Sub messaging system using Java/Groovy and the Vertx.io platform. The system included automatic clustering and deployment on Amazon EC2 instances.

PHP and Magento. The client required a highly customized order approval process that included modifying the order payment and approval flow, as well as creating custom admin and front-end UI elements.

PHP and Magento. Created a module that integrated a CRM solution with PepPod's custom Magento website.

PHP, HTML, CSS, Amazon AWS and JavaScript. Complete rebuild of PepPod's Magento eCommerce website. I worked with their designer and created a responsive custom sub-theme according to their design specifications. I also updated their build environment on Amazon AWS to include test instances for development and updated their overall development structure to professional standards.

Mac OS X, Cocoa, Objective-C. While writing my first two novels, I also created a word processing application that inherently allows the user to break the book down into chapter/scene/section structure, and emphasizes simplicity and cleanliness over feature bloat.

For an art project that required extremely smooth and slow low level fades, I custom designed a PCB board with 4 x TI TLC5971s (16-bit PWM LED driver) and wrote custom controller code that used delta-sigma modulation to dither the 16-bits for an extra few bits of resolution, depending on the speed of the processor. Because of the speed requirements, this project ran better on Teensy than Arduino, but the code was compatible with both.

Rewrote a request interface for the University of Texas, translating older mainframe calls to a modern Java/Groovy REST API using Jersey and Spring. The API was a business process middleware that later sat between the Oracle database and the end-user web applications. Test-driven development and a full suite of unit tests and integration tests were developed while building the API. Newer functional Groovy features such as closures were included as appropriate.

Created a 560-LED matrix grid using LED strips and custom coded LED animations and control software for use on a laptop DJ stand.

Java, Groovy, and Spring. Technical lead on a project to integrate a BonitaSoft web form BPM system for use in provisioning a new authentication system at the University of Texas. My role included researching potential solutions, assisting with the decision to use BonitaSoft, and writing a custom Java/Groovy library that simplified the interface between the BonitaSoft BPM software and the pre-existing UT middleware.