5 StonesLead Developer/Project Manager
Jul. 2016 - Jul. 2017Greater Chicago AreaI managed the 5 Stones team developing FORMED.org, a video/audio/print content-streaming platform with over 290,000 users at the time. My responsibilities included managing a scalable team of 3-5 developers, designing and specifying robust solutions to new feature requests (most recently content-usage analytics data storage/utilization and a customer content management interface for FORMED.org), handling live production site issues at the database, server, and third-party integration level for minimal customer impact, interfacing with client leadership on-demand (usually multiple times per day), and collaborating with a cross-discipline team spanning marketing, graphic design, customer service, and engineering. 5 Stones has a variety of clients with many different technological needs. I worked across all of them from time-to-time and I gained exposure to many different types of languages, frameworks, and services in my time there. My main focus with FORMED.org was Javascript utilizing a MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js) stack. Other languages include PHP and python, and other services/technologies I have experience in include AWS EC2, ECS, IAM, Route 53, S3 (both through the console and CLI), Microsoft Azure, Docker, MySQL, and many others.