Brian Kung

Changing diapers

Potty training

Tantrum management

Bug fixes and feature additions in an up-to-date Rails application. Mostly in BackboneJS on the frontend and a fairly conventional Rails backend.

Wrote credit card verification and fraud prevention for thousands of transactions per month

Identified qualified customers via TransUnion and ActiveProspect APIs

Improved ecommerce customer experiences with custom Spree Ecommerce: VueJS on the frontend and Rails 5.1 on the backend

Rails / PostgreSQL / Vue / Netsuite stack, deployed to Heroku and AWS, international and remote collaboration via Git/GitHub, Agile

Enabled direct sales to enterprise customers with Braintree integration

Saved thousands of operations hours with CSV upload

Developed API features with Python 3.4, Django 1.7+ and PostgreSQL

Implemented CSV data import, user authentication, SPA frontend features in Backbone/Marionette

Pre-rendered thousands of customer badges using Python Wand and ImageMagick

Deployed to Heroku, managed source code with Git and GitHub

Developed API with Ruby on Rails 4.x and PostgreSQL using TDD with RSpec, Capybara

Implemented photo upload to AWS S3 and image cropping, authorization and token authentication using Devise gem

Deployed to Linode using Ansible, Capistrano 2.x, and AWS S3

Worked in 1 week Agile sprints, captured stories and tracked progress using Pivotal Tracker

Implemented customizable image cropping for 40+ editors to use on thousands of articles

Maintained and updated a CMS, front-end, and hypermedia REST API for the Chicago Sun-Times using Ruby on Rails 3.2 and MongoDB

Testing with RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium, deployed to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and S3, managed source code with Git and GitHub using git flow workflow

Validated MVP using Business Canvas

Ran open-ended UX interviews and implemented prototypes

Managed code contributions via Git/GitHub - fully open source

Docker / Rails / PostgreSQL / Vue stack, deployed to Heroku

Consultant at Networking Research Group (Groovy/Grails)

Technical and design consultant for Project Credo

Maintained and improved Toadlane in Rails

Created / maintained Wordpress installations for Fennel & Iris, Vital Points Therapy

Organically grew the meetup to hundreds of members and donors

Created game rules for projecteuler.net, ran monthly meetings

Found sponsors for food and space and organized event times

Developed eulersprint.org to track of game scores and spread rules