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Chris Ell's Resume

Chris Ell

Engineer

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

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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