Planet

Peter Philips

Conceptualized, launched and scaled social web apps: Recognize.
Designed and developed scalable application architecture using test driven development.
Automated a deployment architecture across aws infrastructure using capistrano
Scaled out server architectures using Amazon web services, linode, and heroku.
Perform multi-variant testing and detailed analytics using latest analytics tools(segment, heap, google, mixpanel).
Contributing to the open source movement weekly: Github.

Upgraded a broken legacy app to latest version of Rails with full test coverage.
Built a workflow engine that automatically manages the design process between a designer and client.
Designed and implemented a realtime collaborative annotation tool.
Managed an international development team.

Maintained a WAN infrastructure which includes a 50 station main office and 3 smaller offices connected via IPSEC VPN.
Maintained the coalition’s website and linux and windows based intranet servers.
Responsible for all research, purchase, and execution of all technology equipment and contracts utilized by the coalition.
Managed the transition from a proprietary organizational database to the open source database, CiviCrm.
Managed a complete network infrastructure overhaul by managing 4 separate contractors. The overhaul included a bandwidth upgrade and the transition from a linux based server architecture to a Windows Active Directory based architecture
Assisted with social media campaigns through flickr, twitter, and facebook
Acted as primary photographer, videographer, and video editor. Also, delegated coverage and editing responsibilities to 5 full time staff community organizers and a multitude of volunteers

Developed core infrastructure for an e-commerce application using Ruby on Rails.
Utilized facebook api's for social integration and authorize.net's api for payment processing
Scaled application horizontally using AWS's EC2 and S3

Managed a team of 4 developers (front & Back end) to design and develop a highly transactional and concurrent online reservation system using all aspects of the Ruby-onRails framework including AJAX technologies with a MySQL backend database
Developed custom-built dynamic calendaring system to manage reservations utilizing AJAX technology with backend rule engine using the Rools gem to manage booking conflicts
Developed primary search algorithm using asynchronous daemon processes in combination with MemCache and HTML, CSS, Javascript and image caching to provide fast, efficient search results
Implemented a continuous integration setup utilizing CruiseControl in order to consistently drive our test suites daily after changes to Subversion source repositories

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