Alexander Clark

Qualifications

Ten years professional experience building MVC-based web applications
Seven years using Ruby on Rails
Fourteen years in the IT industry
Sixteen years using Linux and MySQL
Twenty years of writing code

Technical Skills:

Adept: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (esp. jQuery), HTML, SASS, CSS, Git, RSpec, Apache, Linux

Practiced: sql (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite), Capistrano, Phusion Passenger, BASH scripting, PHP, Subversion

Dabbled-in: Heroku, AWS EC2, Ember.js, ObjectiveC, Scheme, C, C++, Java, Python, Postfix, BIND, LaTeX

Professional Experience:

Apr 2016 – Present

Lead Developer WeInfuse, LLC Austin, Texas

Lead a small team of engineers in building a one-of-a-kind healthcare application. Set the technical and architectural tone, maintain infrastructure and DevOps tooling to keep the team productive, work with contractors and vendors, facilitate communication within the team

Jun 2014 – Apr 2016

Ruby Developer Bypass Mobile, LLC Austin, Texas

Build web applications and APIs powering a mobile point of sale system targeted to sports and entertainment venues

Apr 2013 – Jun 2014

Senior Web Developer Infront Webworks, Inc Colorado Springs, Colorado

Develop and maintain the SiteWorks CMS (a Rails engine-based plugin) and related software, assess client needs and craft custom solutions to work in tandem with SiteWorks

Jun 2011 – Present

Developer/Project Manager {You} Creative, LLC Colorado Springs, Colorado

Transform static design assets into well-crafted, semantic markup and interactive CMS themes; provide recommendations on and assistance in implementing security, SEO, and UX best practices; manage digital creative projects, monitoring progress in all areas and ensuring timely delivery

Sep 2008 – Jan 2013

Digital Media Developer-Analyst WAY Media Inc Colorado Springs, Colorado

Communicate with internal stakeholders to determine software require- ments; design, implement, test and deploy web software solutions in a LAMP environment; manage development projects, coordinating with in- terns and third-party contractors; oversee ongoing maintenance of ex- isting software packages; build, configure, and maintain physical and cloud-based virtual Linux servers

Professional Affiliations:

Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Open Source:

ActsAsStarrable – Gem for adding ratings to Rails apps – creator RSpec – Ruby testing framework – occasional contributor

Around the Web:

http://alexander-clark.com/ http://github.com/alexander-clark http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderdclark http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/employer/201949 http://twitter.com/atheclark

Education:

2004 – 2007

Bachelor of Arts, Theology Azusa Pacific University Azusa, California