chris@ellbot.com | Philadelphia, PA
Looking to become a better developer by surrounding myself with others who have a passion for what they do.
Skills Primary:
- Ansible, Packer, Terraform
- AWS
- Cloud Infrascructure management.
- Ruby, Python, Go, Bash
- HTML/Javascript/CSS
Major Projects
- Xfinity My Customer Website: https://customer.xfinity.com
- Xfinity Homepage: http://my.xfinity.com
- Xfinity Search: http://search.xfinity.com
- Xfinity Help & Support: https://www.xfinity.com/support
- Major e-commerce platform built in Rails serving multi-million dollar clients
- Multiple iOS Applications for companies like Deloitte and Universal
Experience Salesforce (January 2020-present) Lead Member of Technical Staff
- Work on internal tooling allowing users to provision and manage infrastucture within public cloud options.
- Produce developer tooling to help aid in a better expereience and software development lifecycle
Barclays (October 2018-January 2019) Vice President of Engineering
- Advised on practices of migrating applications from internal datacenters to public cloud offerings
Comcast (October 2018-January 2019) Principal Software Engineer
- Architecting and Implementing new solutions for back-office tools to improve developer experience and customer support.
- Advising and assisting junior developers in projects.
Comcast (May 2016-October 2018) Senior Engineer
- Cloud migrations for legacy applications residing in physical datacenters.
- Infrastructure management for multiple Xfinity properties. Leveraging Packer, Terraform, and Ansible with newer development in Kubernetes, EC2, or Lambda.
- Advising and assisting junior developers in projects.
Comcast (May 2014-May 2016) Engineer
- Primarily web development work using Ruby on Rails and various Javascript frameworks.
- X1 application development for streaming web videos to the settop box.
WebLinc, LLC. (July 2013-February 2014)
- Worked on an e-commerce platform built in Ruby on Rails, both building the platform as well as tailoring it for specific client needs.
- Construction of Sidekiq workers to maintain synchronicity of a client's business aspects (inventory, purchases, customers) between our platform and their internal solutions.
- Utilized tools such as MongoDB, Mongoid, Elastic Search, Redis, and Sidekiq.
- Communicated with clients during the development process to address both managerial and development questions and concerns.
I-SITE Inc. (March 2011-July 2013)
- Led I-SITE's first Ruby on Rail websites, including The Trestle Inn and Hidden City Philadelphia Festival website.
- Developed native iOS applications, including a multi-award winning iPhone event and location app utilizing Drupal as a CMS.
- Strived to improve the company's development process by introducing current standards, including Version Control, Development Environments and Deployment Techniques.
- Introduced new technologies for projects: ** Ruby on Rails and CodeIgniter as CMS solutions. ** LESS/SASS, HTML5, CSS3, for front end development. ** GitHub for revamping the companies source control.
I-Site Inc. - Intern - (May 2010 - March 2011)
- Worked on new technology research, including development of a top-down dungeon crawler game built in HTML5.
- Optimized company website for mobile devices.
- Worked on major client website doing both content updates and new feature implementation.
Algar Ferrari & Maserati (June 2009 - November 2009)
- Designed and prepped for print various advertisements and newsletters.
- Redesigned and implemented a monthly email newsletter.
- Did not get to drive any Ferraris or Maseratis.
Hobbies
- Gaming on all platforms. Used to play competitively.
- Arduino and other micro controllers.
- Guitar
Education Philadelphia University (2007-2011)
- Bachelors in Digital Design. 3.7 GPA
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