Ryan Verhey
Software Engineer
Experience
Software Engineer II - Full Stack,
Care.com
Remote
Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2021, Sept. 2021 - Present
- Maintain Ruby on Rails-based e-commerce marketplace that connects parents and guardians with daycares, after-school activities, and camps for their children.
- Integrated billing logic with external payments processor, managing +$1m in monthly transactions.
- Participated in numerous language, framework, and dependency updates.
- Managed external and internal facing REST APIs.
- Collaborate with customer support to address customer feedback, both seeker and provider, and triage bugs.
- Collaborate with project management to build new features, including an ads platform and daycare tour scheduler.
- Learned Go, GraphQL, and strengthened React and Typescript skills to collaborate with other Care.com teams and contribute to their codebases.
Sr. Software Engineer,
Scoop News Group
Washington, DC, Remote Hybrid
Mar. 2021 - Sept. 2021
- Architected, developed, enhanced, and deployed React apps with TypeScript.
- Deployed those apps on AWS Lambdas written in JavaScript and Ruby.
- Led the full-stack design of a new SaaS app and shaped its developmental path.
- Managed mission-critical Wordpress installations running on AWS EC2 instances.
Senior Engineer,
Gannett
McLean, VA / Remote
Dec. 2015 - Jan, 2019
- Was sole maintainer of 2 internal Rails applications.
- Architected and maintained APIs to interface with external billing systems and internal applications.
- Provided guidance and mentorship in Ruby, Rails, and front-end technologies.
- Led initiative to completely overhaul decades-old Rails app using object-oriented design and single-responsibility principles.
Web Developer,
Scoop News Group
Washington, DC
Aug. 2014 - Dec. 2015
- Web development and technology authority at the company.
- Transitioned micro-front-ends from Middleman to PHP to make edits and deployments easier and faster.
- Maintained PHP-based CMS (Craft) which used Twig templating.
- Built rich HTML emails.
Skills
- Programming: Ruby / Rails, JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Golang
- Databases: SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
- VCS: Git, GitHub, BitBucket
- CI: Jenkins, CircleCI
- Platform: Kubernetes, Docker, Harness, Heroku, AWS
- APIs: JSON, REST, GraphQL
- Web: HTML, CSS, SCSS, jQuery, AJAX
- Testing: Unit and Integration Testing, Minitest, RSpec, Capybara, Jest
- SDLC: Project Management, JIRA, Figma, Agile, Code Architecture
- Payments: Stripe
Education
DevBootcamp,
Chicago, IL
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2014
Ruby/Rails focus with CSS, HTML, JavaScript
American University,
Washington, DC
—
2013
BA Philosophy, Chinese Language Minor