Gabriel Chaney

I assumed a manager role in August. I have the privilege of empowering a growing number of engineers in a new office through many technical and cultural changes. I also helped lead the team to ship APIs and products critical in the first year of acquisition.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Heroku, PostgreSQL, AngularJS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Sentry, Papertrail, Codeship, Bitrise, Swift, React Native, Phoenix/Elixir

• Designed and shipped an alpha and private beta of a new mobile product in the first year of acquisition
• Lead 3 teams to adopt Scrum with great success
• Created plan to deliver first Phoenix/Elixir API and drove plan to completion
• Counseled a lead engineer through rallying a team to tackle some significant scaling issues
• Played a pivotal role in doubling the total team size in the first year of acquistion

I transitioned from years of experience in a .NET enterprise environment to a Rails startup environment. I was able to apply many design principles I learned at NCARB (DDD, distributed system design, etc.) to guide a small team towards a microservices architecture and a continuous delivery pipeline. We were able to ship the features, survive the DDoS attacks, and be a fun united team to be acquired by RetailMenot in April 2016.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Heroku, PostgreSQL, AngularJS, RabbitMQ, Redis, NewRelic, Sentry, Papertrail, Codeship

• Built the foundation for the continuous integration and delivery pipeline
• Shepherded architecture from monoliths towards microservices
• Drove use of pub/sub with including an in-house developed open source project foundational in our architecture
• Helped develop a scaleable interview process to build the core team
• Developed and presented technical documentation for RetailMeNot acquisition due-diligence team

I helped a new consulting firm build and improve software for their clients. I played a key role in answering one client's performance questions about their SaaS web application as well as contributed to web and mobile applications. This was a remote position that also included visiting client sites.

Technologies: C#, Entity Framework Code-First, Visual Studio load testing

• Built a heavily customized load test suite for testing a multi-tenant app
• Presented performance analysis and recommendations to the client VP and leads
• Contributed to development efforts on a Windows Store app

I joined a newly forming team to upgrade this not-for-profit's legacy .NET applications to next-gen .NET applications. This is where I was introduced to methodologies like Scrum, Domain-Driven Design and distributed systems design. I took classes from Eric Evans (Domain-Driven Design author) and Udi Dahan (NServiceBus author).

Technologies: C#, Unity 2.0, Fluent NHibernate, SQL Server 2008, ASP.NET MVC4, Backbone.js

• Built JavaScript and CSS infrastructure for the new flagship web application
• Facilitated collaboration between between third-party UX team and the development team
• Promoted the use of Backbone.js to the development team
• Recommend a better solution for the new evaluation report which resulted in a different feature roadmap

This is where I started learning about the corporate world and about working with stakeholders. I devoured web technologies and learning C# in this time as well. I taught myself jQuery and making AJAX requests for the first time. I also worked remotely for the first time here.

Technologies: C#, Fluent NHibernate, Oracle 10g, ASP.NET WebForms, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Java

• Drove changes to replace the use of stored procedures with ORM
• Championed jQuery to the team to meet a customer request for web UI performance improvements
• Added client web service requests to external systems which decreased HR analyst processing time from three weeks to less than two weeks
• Integrated with a Netconf API to configure Cisco routers

This is where I built my first web application while I was working on my CS degree (awww). I introduced myself to CSS, HTML, PHP, and MVC through this creative process. I had so much fun learning and building.

Technologies: CakePHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML

• Set-up local are network and point-of-sale system
• Increased piano sales by 47% from 2002-2005 by building custom e-commerce and CMS application
• Sold guitars