Quality Assurance Developer
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Savannah, Georgia
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Summary
** ***** ** ********** ******* software to automate the management of infrastructure, support teams, and developers. Or, #devops, as the kids say these days.Managed operations of a multi-datacenter Linux private cloud with hundreds of physical hosts and many more virtual hostsPersonally managed operations of a Ruby on Rails application powered by almost a hunderd servers performing thousands of requests per secondDeveloped a Rails app report on and to dispatch Capistrano-powered automated tasks to this infrastructureDeveloped a Ruby API for Puppet, and used it to build, an open source Rails configuration management solution with and active community of plugin developersManaged a team of Ruby on Rails developers working on a popular mobile game backendManaged a worldwide team of engineers responsible for hundreds of Rails appications 24/7/365
Open Source
Some OSS projects I've either developed myself, or managed development of, or participated in.GitHubgithub.com/jnewland
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Work Experience
CTO
- PresentSavannah, Georgia
As the CTO for, I'm responsible for all technical aspects of the only full-stack Ruby on Rails hosting and services company in the world.Major AccomplishmentsManaged a worldwide team of engineers responsible for hundreds of Rails appications 24/7/365Personally managed operations of a Ruby on Rails application powered by almost a hunderd servers performing thousands of requests per secondDeveloped a Ruby API for Puppet, and used it to build, an open source Rails configuration management solution with and active community of plugin developersDeveloped several Ruby on Rails applications for internal use
IT Director
- July 2008Atlanta, Georgia
As the IT Director for, I managed all of the Information Technology needs of the Lexblog Network (a group of hundreds of Movable Type blogs published by high-profile law firms). I also was responsible for deployment of sites for new clients, close monitoring and maintenance of our web cluster, and all local IT needs.Major AccomplishmentsDeveloped several Ruby on Rails applications for internal and external useProtyped, implemented, and and currently manage our constantly growing web clusterMigrated hundredes blogs from shared hosting accounts to our web clusterDeveloped a set of standards-compliant Movable Type templates for use on our blogsDeveloped several Movable Type plugins for internal use
Design Prophet
Athens, Georgia
is a web development company run by Jason Lynes. Working with Jason and a small team, I developed custom web applications.Major AccomplishmentsDevelop web applications in for the GUI)Work with clients to manage the design approval process
Associate Web Software Developer
Athens, Georgia
At I maintained web applications for financial institutions utilizing Javascript. I also created and edited forms for online applications such as personal loans, mortgages, Online Banking Applications, etc. As part of a team, I provided quality assurance for other team members' work.Major AccomplishmentsPrototyped the use of a Ruby on Rails powered wiki as an internal whiteboard for others in my DepartmentShattered the DI land speed record for incident response time
Lead Developer
Athens, Georgia
is a small business dedicated to creating a suite of web-based apps (written in ) exclusively for businesses with 10 employees or less. I worked as lead developer for Sprout to help them create a core application base that their product could be built upon.Major AccomplishmentsCreated a comprehensive and automated deployment system to aid in collaboration using Subversion,, and some home grown Ruby code
Technical Support Staff
Athens, Georgia
At the School of Social Work, I ensured all technical support needs of the School of Social Work were met. These included desktop computer troubleshooting and maintaining a lab of ~50 computers. Another team member and myself managed the content on our department's website (30,000 lines of a wonderful mix of Ruby.Major AccomplishmentsPrototyped a redesign of our web presenceMigrating our web/database server from an antiquated RedHat 7.1 server to a new system running SuSE 9.2 ServerAssisting in development of new admissions database system (generating )
Student Director of Online OperationsRed & Black Publishing Co
Athens, Georgia
At the Red & Black, I administrated both local and remote web and mail servers, maintained our network's and Apache, and maintained all 51 internal workstations.
Major AccomplishmentsMaintain the website of the independent student newspaper Maintain and develop applications for our Implement configurable spam filtering on our local mail serverImplement backup solution for our two Mac OS X Servers
Education
Athens, GeorgiaBachelor of Business Administration in from the
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