Matt

Led a team of three, main responsibilities included the managing of planning, development, and deployment of a custom-built ERP and CRM used by the entire business (sales, marketing, production, accounting, and management).

• Manage priorities and task assignments of developers, perform code reviews and approve PRs.
• Guidance and mentorship, establishing coding standards.
• Removal of significant technical debt.

Technologies:

Laravel, PHPUnit, Vue.js,  PostgreSQL, Git, Bitbucket, JIRA

A company that provides all technological services that power high-traffic Sports-betting websites. Utilized an array of technologies, main responsibilities included supporting and growing the many services that power the casino games. Casino services are primarily responsible for relaying communication between game providers and the user.

• Building & maintaining new applications to support daily operation
• Building & maintaining new APIs to increase value.
• Enforced proper CI builds for an “ownerless” product.
• Majorly decreased latency within the casino services.
• Configured a newly created ELK stack to work on our casino applications.

Technologies:

SQL Server, Jenkins, SonarQube, Redis, Beanstalk, Sentry, ELK, Lumen (Laravel microservice), PHPUnit, JSON:API Spec, OAuth2

Built web applications of various sizes for an array of clients. Led projects for different size teams depending on the need of clients. Worked with clients and other stakeholders directly partaking in the initial meetings with potential clients to help assess the needs. Built estimates for potential clients. Formed relationships with developers (every project has a new set) to exploit their strengths. Delivered successful applications.

Accomplishments

• Proved competency in dealing with emergency work. Led the rebuild of said project and built a long-lasting partnership.
• Identified major leaks in the legacy code base.
• Performed successful extraction into micro-service architecture.
• API integrations such as GoDaddy, Namecheap, VoIP.ms & other payment gateways.
• Technologies:  Laravel : (Cashier, Dusk, Horizon, Socialite), Lumen, Payment API development, MySQL / Redis, Event-driven Queue Management, WordPress, Vue.js

The sole developer of the Web Department of a full-service investor relations firm. Representing small, medium, and large cap public companies trading on all major North American exchanges.

• Writing & pitching proposals to the C-Suite of Publicly Traded Companies.
• Regularly scheduling meetings with all departments to ensure projects are completed.
• Successfully replaced several infrastructure components with more cost-effective ones.
• Upgrading technology of client websites for increased performance and stability.

Accomplishments

• Successfully replaced several infrastructure components with more cost-effective ones.
• Re-deployed several funnels of the saved-costssaved costs into different monitoring & security platforms.
• Introduced event logging and proper deployment/integration practices.
• Developed a private Restful StockQuote API with a standalone PHP client library.
• Migrated client websites from DB-Driven Drupal CMS to Flat-file Statamic CMS which in turn highly increased the performance and usability.
• Integrated the StockQuote API as a Statamic Addon with an easy-to-use GUI. Successfully brought all technology used up-to-date.

Technologies:  Laravel, Lumen, StockQuote API, AWS (EC2, S3, Route53), My SQL, Drupal

Responsible for bug fixes, feature changes, and system strengthening, experiencing dynamic changes and growth of additional developers within the IT department. The department grew to a healthy 5 developers after his departure.  Developed and supported operation solutions used by administrative and customer support departments.  Improved and added functionality to the customer application. Developed and maintained reports for various departments.

Accomplishments

• Developed a reporting tool in which solely SQL with a bit of markup was needed in order to create a GUI that allowed reports to be generated via different UI components. Helped migrate a legacy code base onto a new platform. Rebuilt several modules using Angular  (https://youtu.be/X2T8r8EQ5xE)
• Technologies:  Symfony 1.4, Legacy codebase, Silex, Migration of legacy code onto the Silex micro-framework. Angular 1.3, WordPress, MySQL, MongoDB (Logs)