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Ross McKelvie

Swiss Army Knife of Engineering
Austin, Texas
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hire@rossmckelvie.com
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8057202995
A young professional with a passion for building awesome scalable technologies aligning with business objectives. I've created and worked for startups most of my career -- most of my experience is building web based platforms and APIs. Recently taken an interest and specialization in dev ops, performance, infrastructure, and big data.
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Work Experience

Favor Delivery

Senior Engineer
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Jan 2015 - Current

Joined the engineering team as the second engineer to build scalable client and logistics APIs. Worked on the Platform & Data teams to introduce and build out microservice architecture and event streams into the stack. Grew the engineering team, now a team of 25.

  • Converted monolitic PHP application to microservice architecture
  • Improved efficiency of workforce with logistics algorithms
  • Increased revenue with personalized recommendations, built technologies on Titan graph database, akka actor systems, and event streams
  • Built out entire DevOps workflow and release process
  • Architected event stream for real time applications
  • Python machine learning platform predicting on-demand best matches
  • Scala AWS Lambda functions
  • Created content search backed by elasticsearch

Brogrammer LLC

Owner
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Jun 2016 - Current

Engineering Consulting for Startups

  • Worked with a client to rebuild their entire backend platform for fitness tracking. Tech stack: Docker, Python, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS
  • After the API was complete, took ownership of a React Native app. Finished features and productionalized for iOS and Android

Boost VC Startup Accelerator

Lead Engineer
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Oct 2012 - Jan 2015

Built accelerator program and technologies for the first five classes.

  • Built internal social network and media library for members and investors in Ruby on Rails & BackBone
  • Organized developer recruiting events such as bitcoin hackathon
  • Regularly spoke on panels as a Bitcoin expert
  • Technical vote when selecting companies
  • Bitcoin mining expert

LEVEL Studios/Rosetta

Backend Engineer
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Feb 2011 - Mar 2012

Served as a backend engineer for our highest profile client.

  • Improved performance of a 10 year old Java CMS
  • On-demand frontend work
  • Oracle DB

Education

California Polytechnic State University

Bachelor of Science Computer Science
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Dec 2013

Entrepreneurship & Robotics Clubs

Skills

  • Scala
  • Python
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Data Workflows
  • DevOps
  • AWS
  • Web APIs
  • SQL
  • Event Stream & Actor Based Systems
  • Java