Aaron Glenn
Senior Web Engineer
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Passionate, full stack web engineer with a solid design aethestic who seeks to be challenged by exploring new technologies to create great work that people use and genuinely enjoy.
Skills
- Ruby & Rails
- Senior level Rubyist. Actively using Rails since pre-1.0, including
ecommerce and servers/deployments
~ 8 years
- JavaScript & CSS
- Senior front end engineer. Coding JS, CSS & HTML since before Mac IE
was just a bad memory.
~ 10 years
- Communication
- Proven ability to lead and manage a wide variety of projects in both team and independent situations.
Tech
- Ruby
- Rails
- Rspec
- Javascript
- Coffeescript
- Jasmine
- CSS
- Sass
- Compass
- HTML
- Haml
- Audio/Video
- Jquery
- Backbone
- React
- MySql
- Memcached
- Redis
- CVS
- SVN
- Git
Work
- Tout Industries
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Principal Engineer
2011-Present
Architect, develop and scale a high traffic/availability social
video api/platform and web/mobile experience
Summary of accomplishments:
- Architected scalable services based platform & oauth api
- Ruby On Rails (3-4) application development
- Rich clientside web application using
Backbone/React/Haml/Sass/Coffeescript
- Advanced HTML5 video players for internal & external use
- Ensured code quality with TDD and code analysis/standards
- Optimized and tuned caching strategy using Memcached, Redis &
Varnish
- Interfaced with partners & clients to develop a self-serve
dashboard and analytics reporting tool
- Mobile & responsive development for a wide range of devices
- Led team of 6-8 developers
- Nonfiction Studios
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Lead Developer
2007-2011
Architect, design and develop websites/web applications for various clients using web standards, PHP and Rails technologies.
Summary of accomplishments:
- Ruby On Rails (2.x – 3) application development and deployment to a variety of OSes
- Maintained, enhanced and debugged custom MVC framework in PHP
- Engaged with new clients and provided support for existing clients
- Utilized Subversion Version Control and Git Version Control
- Optimized and troubleshot sites receiving over 500,000 hits daily
- Administered and deployed to multiple UNIX enviroments
- MySQL Database design, and optimization
- Led small team of developers and designers
- Mac OSX environment
- Critical Mass
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Lead Developer
2003-2007
Develop interactive sites and applications for clients such as Rolex, Home Depot, Hyatt Hotels, Dell, DeVry, IKEA Canada, SBC.
Summary of accomplishments:
- Development of client websites and dynamic web applications
- JSP, Struts/Tiles, PHP, Prototype
- Managed team of web developers and interfaced with designers
- Screening and Interviewing potential hires
- Conducted performance reviews
- AJAX / Remote Scripting (Unobtrusive JS)
- Cross-Device Awareness
- Database design/integration (Oracle)
- Beautiful Code
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Principal
2001-Present
Freelance development & design of various client sites and open source
projects
Summary of accomplishments:
- Development of client websites and dynamic web applications
- Used Flash, PubSub, HTML5, CSS, Node
- Setup and maintained Ubuntu cloud servers
- Explored new technologies including Ecommerce on Rails and Web
Audio
- Mobile Design & Development
Education
- Bachelor of Commerce
- University of Lethbridge
- Multimedia Certificate
- AMTC Calgary, Canada
- 15yrs Web Experience
- Online/Books/Conferences
Aaron Glenn — aaron@aaronglenn.ca — (415) 830-2411