Rapid Prototyping

We brought a startup off the ground with a fully functional site in one month that included:

  • Integrated SMS notification functionality
  • Implemented full-text search using Ferret
  • Automated registration system with email notifications and captchas
  • Full site auditing and reporting application
  • Developed comments system
  • Implemented inline image uploading functionality

Custom CRM Development

Developed tested, performant Rails based CRM to integrate with existing solutions

  • Scales to millions of contacts
  • Completely flexible field definitions and categories
  • List generation based on field data and financial contributions
  • Integration with ActBlue and ExactTarget services

Facebook

Developed Facebook front-end for client with existing virtual worlds application

  • Birds eye view of other friends' virtual rooms
  • Publishing to wall feeds on significant system events
  • Notifications when a friend entered your virtual room

Quickbooks Integration

Created a Rails based web services application to synchronize existing e-commerce site transaction data with local QuickBooks installation.

  • Extensive use of rspec to fully test views, models, controllers, and mailers
  • Automatic, hands-off synchronization
  • Auditing application provided full conversation transcripts between the web service and the local QuickBooks application.
  • Extensive server state machine to track conversation with QuickBooks.
  • Fast two week turnaround with limited initial functionality requirements. Delivered product with revisions on-time with full passing test suite.

iPhone Development

Built iPhone application to augment audio conferencing network.

  • Asynchronous client/server event processing
  • Asynchronous audio streaming using Core Audio
  • Instant Messaging capability with custom rendered chat bubble views