Ross McKelvie

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

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

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

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

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