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Sean Phillips

Freelance Full-Stack Web Developer
Berlin, Germany
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github.com/sphillips
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seanphillips@protonmail.com
An experienced web developer and team lead, specializing in Ruby and JavaScript development. Looking for work as a Rails/React developer or dev ops engineer on a freelance basis.
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Work Experience

7Sports (subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1)

Back End Developer (Freelance)
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Jul 2018 - Sep 2019

Work focused on various applications which served streaming sports videos, including the yousport.tv mobile API and website, sportdeutschland.tv and ranfighting.de. Primary technologies included Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Heroku, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, CI/CD pipelines.

  • Led design and build-out of an entirely new back-end API for yousport.tv on Rails, Heroku, AWS.
  • Helped establish development processes and Dockerized production environment as team and user base grew
  • Built and optimized API for partners to share match and video data across platforms
  • Built several services for import and export of data to/from various platforms including YouTube API

CareerFoundry

Head of Engineering
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Mar 2014 - Jul 2017

A Berlin-based e-learning platform for mentored courses in web/mobile development and UX/UI design. I joined the company at launch to help develop and scale the application. Over time I helped hire and mentor the development team and focused on product strategy and maintaining platform quality. Our core stack included Rails, React, Postgres, Redis, Heroku, AWS, TravisCI, Google Analytics.

  • Led development and architecture strategy for a company that grew from from six employees to over fifty, with several thousand daily active users.
  • Managed team of eight developers and mentored junior developers through regular code reviews and paired programming. Led weekly workshops on proper coding practices, style guidelines, writing tests, and deploying code.
  • Participated in rewrites of technical course materials and mentored students in web development course.
  • Assisted in build-out of interactive quiz game app for data collection and lead conversion, using React and Google Analytics

Quirky

Ruby on Rails Developer
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Sep 2012 - Aug 2013

An innovative product development startup based in Manhattan. Users could pitch invention ideas for home products, and the winning ideas were prototyped in-house by a team of industrial designers and brought to market, incorporating community feedback at each step of the process.

  • Helped implement a full site rebranding, as well as buildout of a new API for the mobile app backend.
  • Maintained content and delivery operations of weekly digest email to over 400k users.
  • Maintained codebase of multiple Rails and Sinatra apps and directed tech operations for weekly interactive live streams (“Weekly Product Evaluation”) in which thousands of users regularly participated in real-time video broadcasts (by chatting, voting, pricing) to select the next Quirky products.

Blue Iceberg Interactive

Senior Web Developer
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Oct 2008 - Sep 2012

A digital strategy agency based in Manhattan. Our work ranged widely, from implementing branding design concepts to building content management systems in PHP and Rails. As Senior Developer I was in charge of server administration and all technical decisions for execution of client projects.

Education

Boston College

Bachelor's of Science in Business Management Concentrations in Information Systems & Finance; Music Minor
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2003 - 2007

Information Systems studies focused on programming (Java, PHP), database design and building web apps. Finance course work covered accounting, corporate finance, investing, and international finance (FX, tax, and monetary policy).

Projects

Parasol Island eLearning Platform

Front End Developer (React JS)
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Dec 2019 - Current

Built the front end of a skills training platform for employees of Parasol Island Agency. The back end was a REST API built by a colleague in Laravel and the front end done by myself in React, based on component layouts designed and provided by client in Figma.

Skills

  • Ruby on Rails
  • jQuery
  • ReactJS
  • Node.js
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • AWS: S3, EC2, EBS, SES, CDN, Route 53, Elastic Transcoder
  • Webpack
  • Apache
  • Nginx