Jesse Falconer

Full Stack Developer

Several years of professional and charitable programming experience, with particular knowledge in Ruby on Rails, Javascript and MATLAB (hobbyist) in an agile environment.
Always looking to make significant contributions to the product, technically or creatively.
Accountable to those who will inherit my code, either immediately or years down the road.
Inexplicably knows the Spark codebase. Would be able to jump right in and be productive without months of run-up time getting to know the application, development practices and the real estate industry. Could magically avoid the loss of precious time dedicated to interviews and paperwork. Could magically avoid the loss of money related to recruiter fees and gambling on unknown developers. Guaranteed to be easy to manage, known to be a good culture fit. Will take an active interest in the company beyond simply writing code. Has demonstrated patience and loyalty over years of employment.

Languages:	Ruby, Javascript, MATLAB, Python, C++, SQL
Markup and Style:	HTML, XML, HAML, CSS, SCSS, LaTeX
Frameworks:	Ruby on Rails, Node.js and Express.js, Django, React.js
Databases:	PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Concepts:	Agile, MVC patterns, data structures and algorithms, relational database design, authentication and authorization
Version Control:	Git, Github, Bitbucket
Testing:	TDD and BDD, RSpec factories and fixtures
Devops:	Ubuntu, NGINX, Phusion Passenger, Puma, Capistrano

Consistently implement extensive and scalable relational database designs with complex associations, common to many CRMs.
Respond to and ship client-expedited work within days, sometimes hours.
Soloed a project to replace a disparate collection of legacy data and adapt it to a flexible and verbose ecosystem of features seamlessly without loss of data or uptime. Repeated this achievement on a more ambitious project with a coworker.
Created a rollout plan to migrate floating point currency data to integers across 15 tables affecting over 50,000 records and several critical systems (in progress).
Architected a calendar API so that users could sync events created within Spark to their choice of calendar client such as iCalendar, Google or Outlook Calendar.
Contribute to best-practice guidelines within the company. Create language standards for continuity.

Worked with PostgreSQL to create customizable queries through a React and Django application.
Created a web scraper to trawl ClinicalTrials.gov and populate the database.
Learned React.js to make agile, time-senstive changes for clients.
Used statistical analysis to quality control data for a variety of machine learning algorithms.
Developed best-practice guidelines for future developers at departure.

A class designed to teach students the basics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ruby— the teaching assistant answers questions and provides instruction during lecture and lab periods respectively.
Relating technical topics to inexperienced students has furthered my own knowledge and reinforced my leadership skills.

Completed 40 credits, earning a certificate and first year engineering equivalent.