Dan Healy

Full Stack Ruby Developer

About Me

Ruby developer since 2007, previously hardware engineer with logic design
Focus on back-end programming: APIs, data modeling, PostgreSQL, etc
Proficient with Bootstrap / jQuery front-end web dev, learning Vue.js
Experienced with tvOS front-end dev and Cloud (AWS/GCP) DevOps
Interested in machine learning and game design

Skills

This website was (over)built as a demonstration, using Rails, responsive design with Haml/Sass/Bootstrap, and hosted on Linode using Docker Swarm. Code available on GitHub.

Employment History

Responsible for features and maintenance of existing Rails API back-end. Implemented fast ElasticSearch bulk reindexing task; AngularJS 1.7 front-end and back-end work to integrate BambooHR's ATS with the programming assessment lifecycle.

Thrillcall

Developer

2010-2018

Thrillcall connects fans with the concerts they're interested in, through a comprehensive listing of events and the ability for users to track the musicians they already like and listen to on social media.

Projects implemented:

The main API for event data, consumed by mobile apps and external customers including Myspace.
Apple TV app using RubyMotion and Apple's TVML.
Automated API and Web data incorporation for ~25 event/ticketing sources including StubHub.
Data pipeline using AWS SQS and DynamoDB for long term storage of realtime ticket pricing, database contained 3 billion pricing records as of mid 2018.
Integrations with ~10 third-party services including Spotify to match users' listening data with their favorite artists on our site.
Social integrations including Facebook Canvas page tab for listing events, and a Hootsuite-like product for Artists and Venues to promote events across multiple social platforms.
Various front-end tasks including music service connections, responsive redesign for the Event web page, SEO, and admin tooling. Worked closely with designers on all front-end heavy projects.