Software Developer

Benjamin D. Nelson

Contact Information

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Professional Experience

FirstDataBank San Francisco, CA January 2023 - Present Senior Ruby-on-Rails Developer

Type: Full Time

● Rails full-stack drug book application

● Transition code base to new partner while maintaining legacy customers

● Moving deployment from Capistrano/EC2 to AWS ECS with Fargate

● On AI team that builds various products using OpenAI

FindItParts.com Los Angeles, CA August 2020 - January 2023 Senior Ruby-on-Rails Developer

Type: Full Time

● Develop analytics using DynamoDB

● Upgrading Rails to version 7

● Oversee the product data feed API integrations

OnceThere Austin, Texas August 2015 - August 2020 CTO & Ruby-on-Rails/PHP Developer

Type: Full-Time

Oversee all development operations for the OnceThere.com platform.

● Rewrote and maintain four Ruby-on-Rails applications

● Rewrote all clients in React

● Capistrano and Chef for Deployment

● Maintained two legacy laravel apps

● Sinatra API

Technologies used: Rails, React, Sinatra, Chef, Capistrano, JavaScript, JQuery, CoffeeScript, AWS, Memcache, MongoDB

MaxPoint Interactive Austin, Texas January 2014 – April 2017 Ruby-on-Rails Developer

Type: Full-time and then part-time

MaxPoint is the 9th fastest growing technology company in the world. They do hyperlocal advertising (think big-data) by targeting consumers in specific neighborhoods.

● Rewrote all deployment code for Capistrano

● Created Chef recipes for automatic deployment to European datacenters

● Created a gem for their CMS

Technologies used: Rails / API, Chef, Capistrano, Gem creation, MongoDB, postgres, AngularJS

Keet (getkeet.com) Austin, Texas May 2015 – September 2015 CTO / Ruby-on-Rails Consultant

Type: Contract

Status: Closed

Keet is a healthcare companion and EHR app for physical therapy offices.

● Consulting on code base, technologies, hosting providers, HIPAA, and development processes

Lone Star Technologies Austin, Texas May 2015 – August 2015 Ruby-on-Rails Developer

Type: Contract

Status: Closed

I work on various websites such as completebook.com, mlrwm.com, and texasoutside.com.

● Implemented friendly_id, migrating complebook off of MongoDB to MySQL, and lots of JS work

Technologies used: Rails, JavaScript

Austin Coding Academy Austin, Texas January 2015 – January 2016 PHP Instructor

Type: Contract

Status: Ongoing

● I teach the basics of PHP development twice a week in the evening.

Technologies used: PHP, MySQL

KloudNation Richardson, Texas February 2015 – April 2015 Ruby-on-Rails Developer

Type: Contract

Status: Completed and Delivered

KloudNation is a development firm in Richardson, Texas that was hired by FlyingTee to write an app for their golfing stores.

● Writing API in RoR for their Microsoft client to use

Technologies used: Rails / API, Heroku, MongoDB, MySQL, Sidekiq

Somnio Austin, Texas May 2014 – July 2014

JavaScript Developer

Type: Contract

Status: Completed and Delivered

Somnio is a B2B Digital Marketing Agency that hired me to build a simple JavaScript search engine for their proof-of-concept scientific whitepaper product for IBM.

● Created a JavaScript search engine

Technologies used: JavaScript, JQuery

FastFan, Inc. Austin, Texas March 2013 – January 2014 CTO & Ruby-on-Rails Developer

Type: Full-Time

FastFan was a music industry startup whose goal was to allow consumers to market independent music and make profits off of their actions.

● Was hired to overhaul their system of legacy PHP

● Python coding for ETL scripts

● Moved entire codebase to RoR and AngularJS in three months and deployed on all platforms

● Wrote many rake tasks and PHP scripts to pull hundreds of millions of records from 3rd party APIs into ElasticSearch and MySQL

Technologies used: Rails / API, Heroku, Python, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, AngularJS, PHP

Parallel Solutions Lubbock, Texas August 2008 - December 2012 CEO

Type: Full-Time

Parallel Solutions was a company I created that built a big-data enterprise platform. $100,000 of capital was injected into our software business from profits made on our military contracts. We had 45 customers in West Texas and the IP was sold in 2012.

● Oversaw five developers and three executives

● Learned and implemented MongoDB after MySQL became too hard to manage (and too slow)

● Administed ten Ubuntu servers on both Rackspace and Amazon

Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Ubuntu

Odessa College Odessa, Texas August 2007 - August 2008 Chemistry Professor

Type: Full-Time

● Taught Seven Introductory Chemistry Courses and Labs.

● Performed Theoretical Mathematics Research on Dr. Manheim's Alternatives to Einstein's Field Equations with Maple.

Nelkor Industries Odessa, Texas April 2007 - August 2007 Design Engineer

Type: Full-Time

Nelkor was a mechanical engineering and machine shop that supplied custom machined products the oil industry in West Texas.

● Designed various parts and also machined those parts.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lubbock, Texas May 2004 - April 2007 Research Assistant

Type: Part-Time

● Researched cancer and tissue rejection under the guidance of Dr. Charles Faust, Associate Dean of Cell Biology and Biochemistry Department.

United States Marine Corp Officers Candidate School Summer 2004 Officer Candidate

Type: Full-Time

● Completed and graduated from the United States Officer's Candidate School

● Given Honorable Discharge.

GitHub

https://github.com/BDNelson123

Recent Apps

https://github.com/BDNelson123/most-recent-kn

https://github.com/BDNelson123/houseAPI

https://github.com/BDNelson123/houseClient

Education

2002 - 2006

Texas Tech University

Bachelor's of Science in Biological Chemistry w/ minors in Biology and Mathematics

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