Justin Marney

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Summary of Qualifications
  • Expert Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer.
  • Practitioner of test-driven development, pair programming, and agile methodology.
  • Interested in building distributed systems and solving large-scale challenges.
Career Highlights
  • Advanced Viget's internal software development methodology to include pair-programming, iteration planning meetings, and acceptance-style ticket writing.
  • Presented a talk on the fundamentals of distributed systems at Devnation Portland.
  • Planned and led Hackday, a two-part Ruby meta-programming workshop in 2010 for DC area developers. This was a free, hands-on workshop that was open to the public and attended by ~25 people.
  • Founded Ruby Hacknight, a monthly Ruby users group focused on bringing together beginner and experienced hackers in a friendly setting.
Experience
  • Senior Developer, Viget Labs
    January 2008 - Present
    • Responsibilities
      • Solve integration challenges including enterprise SOAP APIs, MRIS real-estate databases, and Healthcare data exchanges.
      • Prioritize features, execute iterations, and refactor existing code-bases.
      • Evaluate and interview candidates, as well as train and mentor Jr. developers.
      • Work with company founders to identify and implement team goals, infrastructure technologies, and development methodologies.
    • Project Portfolio
      • Heycraig, Developer
        Highly customized sinatra and delayed_job app that allows people to create real-time email alerts for items they are searching for on Craigslist. Uses background processes to manage bounced emails and currently has 6K individual searches and over 5K users. The project resulted in crags, an open-source Craigslist search wrapper.
      • Gofivo, Lead Developer
        Real-time deal app that gives local businesses fine-grained control over how and when deals are delivered to their customers. Allows users to receive sms or email alerts for offers that match custom search criteria. Launched in May 2011, the app currently services 82 businesses and over 2K users in Washington, DC.
      • Bypass, Lead Developer
        HTML5 mobile web app that lets you skip the concession line at a stadium venue by ordering food on your phone. The platform is comprised of a mobile ordering application, touch screen fulfillment interface, and an administration application that services over 15 stadium venues.
  • Developer, Matrix Group
    November 2004 - December 2007
    • Developed multi-tier application using MSSQL, NHibernate, C#, and ASP.Net in order to streamline a lengthy paper and mail-based process.
    • Focused on applying design patterns and an object-oriented architecture to handle multiple core system upgrades over a 3-year period.
    • Developed a central e-commerce and membership database by integrating with an in-house Python-based association management system.
  • Developer, IBT
    January 1999 - November 2004
    • Managed a web application development project for a third-party health care claims management company.
    • Performed network administration duties at 9 small-to-mid-size client networks in the D.C. area.
Community Contributions
  • Founder of Ruby Hacknight
    Co-Founded a Ruby user group focused on bringing together beginner and experienced hackers in a friendly setting. Organized monthly meetups for 2 years with a user base of over 250 members.
  • Hackday
    Helped plan and lead a series of free 1/2 day workshops on various Ruby and Ruby on Rails topics such as Refactoring Rails Controllers, Test-Driven Development in Rails, and Ruby Meta-Programming.
  • Learning Processing
    Started a bi-weekly session focused on teaching artists and designers how to program using Processing.
Open Source
  • simple_importer: Simple API for importing from csv, tsv and xml
  • crags: Search across multiple craigslist locations
  • cijoel: A cijoe-like server in erlang
  • duke: Manage multiple cijoe instances through a cli or web interface
  • riak-node: Experimental event-based node riak client
  • multilife: PureData midi sequencer for the monome driven by the game of life
  • lilylife: Game of life sequencer in lily
  • rmonome: Ruby monome library
  • pygrack: Syntax highlighting middleware via the Unofficial Pygments API
  • lwjac: light-weight jsonp comments via riak and sinatra
  • js-templates-benchmark: Benchmarking Handlebars.js and Moustache.js
  • sonifier: Turn a web page into beeps/glitches, sequence them with a monome
  • monomap: Lily patch that allows you to control a google map with the monome
  • processing: My processing sketchbook
Presentations
Writing
  • Viget Labs Extend: Author posts on Ruby and Ruby on Rails topics. The latest posts can be reached here.
  • sorescode.com: Publish articles on various topics both developer and personally oriented.
Education