Software Engineer, Background Check Team

Checkr

August 2019 — Present

• Ruby on Rails
• Collaborating with peers to brainstorm ideas to improve report accuracy and reliability - this involves white-boarding, sending out RFCs, and running architecture spike sessions with the team.
• Build new features on the core background check product and testing them.
• Contribute to internal tooling to help improve workflows and increase efficiency.
• Help identify, triage, and solve bugs.
• Demo work to team during weekly sprint retrospectives.

Software Engineer

i3logix

July 2018 — August 2019

• PHP 7.1+, Zend Framework combined with Expressive, EXT.JS, Jasper, JIRA, git
• Manage scalability of legacy codebase while enabling longevity by eliminating technical restrictions
• Design and begin implementation to replace legacy system using modern architectures
• Perform and recommend software frameworks, packages and processes
• Perform code reviews on peer pull requests as-required
• Support off-hours deployment releases on a rotating schedule

Software Developer III (Senior)

RealPage (formerly The Rainmaker Group)

July 2017 — July 2018

• Laravel, JavaScript, JIRA, AWS
• Help shape and implement new features within the Rainmaker ILM product suite working with developers, designers, product owners, sales and support
• Integrate with in-house and third-party applications through REST and SOAP APIs

PHP Developer

TransitiveMedia

October 2016 — July 2017

• Part of a small creative team that was responsible for all aspects of the ongoing and new software development and maintenance of IP software, system maintenance, and client requests (internal and external clients)
• Application based on Laravel, Eloquent, MySQL, Blade, PHP 7+, HTML5, CSS3, Vue.JS
• Full-Stack Development from database design to CSS with Bootstrap
• Build and consume internal RESTful API, OAuth 2.0, Access Control
• Git repository and branch source code management

PHP Web Application Developer

Wiland

April 2015 — October 2016

• Worked closely with the Development Team Lead, Product Management team and other developers to define, design, build and maintain consumer-facing web based application
• Integrated with Cloudinary API, Twitter Bootstrap Carousel
• Asynchronous AJAX loading of content, Handlebars JS
• Application based on Symfony 2/3 with Doctrine 2, MySQL, Twig, PHP 7
• Write automated test cases with PHPUnit, Selenium & Mink

RockyPrep.com

Launched: September 2008

• Creates, automatically updates and calculates standings and RPI for high school football teams in the United States
• Laravel, jQuery, JavaScript (JS), Twitter Bootstrap
• LAMP stack: Linux, Apache2, MySQL, and PHP 7.1
• Integrates with Twitter API to tweet results

TracTrak.com

Launched: January 2016

The website provides real-time results of track time for track meets from the FinishLynx Fully-Automated-Timing system.

• Takes output of fully automated timing system and pushes notifications through Pusher.com via websockets to update data without refreshing web page
• Wrote Golang executable to monitor directory for file changes and send to server with built-in automatic retries
• Laravel, Vue.JS, Twitter Bootstrap
• LAMP stack: Linux, Apache2, MySQL, and PHP 7.1

Oregon State University

2015

Coursework in Computer Science

University of Colorado at Boulder

1999 — 2004

Master of Science (Mechanical Engineering)

Bachelor of Science (Mechanical Engineering)

Minor in Philosophy

Veteran

Corporal (E-4)

Field Telephone/Switchboard Technician (2811)

United States Marine Corps, 1995-1999

Eagle Scout