Alexander H.

Senior Backend Developer

About

Experienced Software Engineer and Technologist in scalable web applications, message queueing, asynchronous processing, APIs, databases, schema design, events, UX, rapid prototyping, web application design and deployment. Specialties: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Jquery, ES6, JS SPA Frameworks, Python, Java, Elixir, Scalable application design, Modern OO techniques, Agile, TDD

Country

United States

City

Austin

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Ruby on Rails, Ruby, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, Web Development, ASP, JSON, CSS, Subversion, Software Engineering, Windows, Mobile Applications, Programming, Mobile Devices, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Unobtrusive Javascript, System Deployment, Deployment Planning, Ui Design

Experience

Senior Backend Developer

KnowInk

2021-3 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Rails 6 and Elixir full stack web development with AWS and Kubernetes for a primarily US based election platform

Software Engineer

Science Exchange

2020-2 - 2021-2 · 1 yr 1 mo

Austin, Texas Area

Rails 4, React full-stack engineering on Heroku for a rails based scientific bidding and exchange platform

Senior Software Engineer

Optum

2014-8 - 2019-12 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Austin, Texas Area

Advisory Board Company (ABCO) from 2014-2018. Acquired by Optum, a United Healthcare Group company in 2018. SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (May 2016 - Dec 2019) Healthpost Data Team. PMS/EMR Integrations. Schedule Aggregator Team. Ruby 2.x, Rails 2/3/4/5. RabbitMQ. Kafka, Java. Sinatra. Bi-directional integrations, Scalable Message Queues, HL7, Postgres, MySql, Full Stack, AWS, S3, Terraform, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization (Docker), Amazon ECS, Javascript Frameworks, Node.js, SPA, Application design, Service Oriented Architecture, CICD, Agile SOFTWARE ENGINEER (August 2014 - May 2016) Built scalable queue pipelines for HL7 PMS/Emr data feeds, availability systems Integrated systems with central company datastore Coordinating with multiple capability teams across products Ruby/Rails full stack development, Java development

Software Development Consultant

Emmoco, Inc.

2011-11 - 2014-6 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Austin TX

Full stack web development, including ORM based SQL, Client side development with jQuery (Javascript), Ruby (Web), Ruby (Scripting), Rails (Web). Experience with the Heroku deployment infrastructure.

Software Developer

SiteFM- Smart Healthcare Environments

2006-10 - 2011-11 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Austin TX

Full stack web development on the SiteFM Facility management web application including ORM based SQL, Standalone SQL, Client side development with Jquery (Javascript), Ruby (Web), Ruby (Scripting), Rails (Web), legacy classic ASP Systems (Web, Client). Worked with both Unix and Windows systems on multiple projects. Extensive experience with web systems deployment, management, and programming.