Objective

Senior software engineer with 18 years of experience developing and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications. Skilled in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, GraphQL, and React. Seeking a new opportunity to expand my knowledge and work with new technologies and languages.

Experience

3/2018 - 3/2025
Senior Software Engineer
Lewisville, TX
  • Integrated Teladoc Health client group administration with Salesforce using GraphQL, enabling a reduction in time and effort to convert sales leads to active clients.
  • Implement and maintain connections to insurance provider real time eligibility (RTE) and pricing services for use by Teladoc Health using ANSI X12 electronic data interchange.
  • Created interfaces for client integration team to manage RTE connections and insurance payer eligibility and pricing rules in Teladoc Health’s internal admin application.
  • Develop internal administration application’s Ruby on Rails back end and React front end.
  • Develop member management REST API for partner clients for use in white label telehealth applications.
  • Mentor junior developers, providing team on-boarding and daily coaching and pair programming.
  • Created bulk RTE check tool using Sidekiq for queue management, allowing client integrations team to perform large numbers of eligibility checks in support of billing and revenue management.
  • Enhanced Teladoc Health applications and database schema to add support for non-US members.
10/2015 - 2/2018
Senior Back End Developer
Plano, TX
  • Developed and maintained BookShout's back end Ruby on Rails infrastructure.
  • Architected and developed the BookShout shopping cart application using Ruby on Rails and React/Redux.
  • Developed improved notification architecture that unified sending SMS, email, and push notifications.
4/2012 - 10/2015
Back End Developer
Dallas, TX
  • Lead development of internal project management system.
  • Lead development of brand refresh for tgifridays.com. Created a custom content management system (CMS) using Rails with content drafting and previews. Developed a feed which pulled content from various social media sites seamlessly integrated with CMS content.
  • Developed new website for DDR (ddr.com) using Rails and ElasticSearch for searching commercial real estate listings. Created data import process for listings using F#.
  • Lead development of Home Depot Weekly Reels (thdweeklyreels.com), a Rails application allowing the client's marketing team to upload industry ad spots for viewing by the executive team. Used ffmpeg for video processing.
  • Developed various client websites using a variety of tools, frameworks, and libraries; primarily Ruby on Rails, WordPress, jQuery, and ElasticSearch.
  • Other completed client websites include trainwithcae.com, summerseve.com, buttpaste.com, and ultabeautylols.com.
8/2011 - 4/2012
Director of Technology
Irving, TX
8/2009 - Present
Freelance Web Developer
 
Richardson, TX
6/2006 - 6/2010
Developer and Administrator
Richardson, TX
  • Developed a web based content management system using Ruby on Rails to allow for simple and easy publication and control of content by the content curator and users.
  • Maintained website data with emphasis on continuous development of new features to streamline insertion of new and changing web content.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Fluent in:

  • Ruby
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • C

Proficient in:

  • Elixir
  • C++
  • C#
  • MySQL

Conversant in:

  • Rust
  • Erlang
  • Scheme
  • Haskell
  • Common Lisp

Operating Systems

  • macOS
  • Ubuntu/Linux Mint
  • CentOS
  • Windows 10

Applications

  • git
  • clang/gcc
  • Xcode
  • MS Visual Studio 2019

Web Servers

  • Nginx
  • Apache

Note: a strikethrough a link above indicates that either the website has been taken offline by the client since the work was completed or was replaced with an updated version I did not work on. This was last updated on .