Bruce Ingalls Tampa
Laravel Software Engineer of 10+ Years
bruce . ingalls (at) gmail
https://bingalls.github.io
SKILLS
Languages JavaScript & Node.js, PHP/Laravel, SQL, TypeScript DevOps Amazon AWS, DBA, Linux system admin, Git
Full Stack SDLC: analysis; design; code; test; deploy ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Architecture Reactive Single Page App, scaled to update in seconds Back End Performance optimization & multi-layer caching Biz Process Guide team to agile; git flow; test plans Open Source Ubuntu's JDK; GNU contributor; Log4PHP driver EXPERIENCE
Hotwire Communications Fort Lauderdale, FL 3 years 2022 - 2025 ENVIRONMENT
Laravel PHP, Bootstrap
EXPERIENCE
Sparked new testing & cases in Playwright, MSW & Pest for ISP internet & TV provider billing site Overhauled home page User eXperience beyond 5x speedup; asynchronously loaded each page block Created strategy to upgrade API that vexed company for years. Improved security as a side-effect Converted PDF to CSS that stumped the rest of the team Crafted customer friendly process to register new devices Ingalls Consulting Co New York, NY 8 years 2012 - 2021 Clients: Pearson, Consumer Reports, Helix; Exenta, Purveyor, Play Sports Live Worked in E-commerce, Finance, Media & Product Lifecycle Management verticals ENVIRONMENTS
Laravel/PHP, AWS, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, React, Redis, Terraform, Vue Led small teams using Agile Process, setting up Redmine ticketing. Made releases more reliable with git-flow, setting up staging deployments, Continuous Integration, etc. Optimized speed on both front & back end, including Webpack; Redis & Varnish caching Beyond CI/CD, I tripled testing speeds, ensuring compliance Injected Quality into legacy code that wasn’t instrumented for testing. Delivered online game with snappy UX on tight schedule Lectures on computer security
Rapid onboarding with Docker & documentation
Cantor Fitzgerald New York, NY 2 years 2009 - 2011 Developer: E-commerce website
ENVIRONMENT
PHP, jQuery, Web Services
EXPERIENCE
Modernized legacy food delivery site including PCI/DSS compliance My early adoption of a CSS framework later enabled responsive redesign. Database optimization. Called ReST APIs: Authorize.net, StrikeIron, Noaa weather. EDUCATION
Rochester Institute Of Technology Computer Science Rochester, NY State University Of New Paltz B.S. Electrical Engineering New Paltz, NY OTHER Fluent in German and French; CompTIA Security+