Objective: Staff Engineer, Principal Systems Architect, Principal Engineer, Team Lead

PETER H. BOLING
Silicon Valley & SF Bay Area homepage: http://railsbling.com
(765) 760-2012 email: peter.boling@gmail.com
Objective: Staff Engineer, Principal Systems Architect, Principal Engineer, Team LeadExperienced system architect, team leader, mentor, rubyist, and full stack web application programmer since 2004; sometime linux system administrator.
Author and maintainer of many popular open source libraries.
I excel at data analysis, task automation, testing, style guides, best practices, API design, benchmarking, and Domain Driven Design.
Led major PHP to Rails conversions @ aSmallWorld and BibleGateway.
Created solutions for finance, social networking, government, information technology, B2B, fashion, gaming, publishing, and e-commerce sectors.
Dedicated to moving science forward and improving the condition of life generally by automation and process improvement.
Skills
App: Ruby, Rails, Webpacker, Rack, JSONapi, HTML, SCSS, Slim
Database: PostgreSQL, Dynamo, Neo4j, ES, Mongo, Redis, MySQL, Oracle, Memcached
Servers: Puma, nginx, unicorn, passenger, mongrel, lighttpd, mod_ruby
System: Bash, monitoring, scheduling, backup, security, debian packaging
Management & Tech Leadership Experience
At Invoice2go, Team Lead, over 6 developers, and 1 QA Engineer; Managed Automation team, 2 people, from 2016 - 2017.
As CTO, I managed a team consisting of designers, frontend, and backend engineers, 5 people; my own startup, Acquaintable from 2012 - 2013.
At BloombergBlack, I was the first employee and Lead Engineer, over a team of 15 rails engineers; personal wealth management startup from 2010 to 2012.
Managed team of 5 fresh-out-of-college programmers at a Rails consultancy where I was Partner; Sagebit, from 2008-2009.
Most recent projects
Principal Systems Architect
Stack - Rails 4.2, Ruby 2.0=>2.3, RSpec, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, ES, Mongo, Redis, Memcached, Resque, DigitalOcean, Heroku, DataDog, Cloudwatch, NewRelic, Salesforce, Jira, Bitbucket, Ubuntu
Intricately May 2016 - Present
http://www.intricately.com
Created time-series data collection & analytics; Generates events to track change on internet
Scaling systems and creating devops tools to better utilize infrastructure
Advanced math to transform non-scalar data from AWS Alexa into a scalar digest
Monitor, log, benchmark, and automate the internet monitoring robots
Build data pipelines for enterprise customers exposing the internet sliced in different ways
Principal Systems Architect
Stack - Rails 4.2=>5.2, Ruby 2.3=>2.5, RSpec, PostgreSQL, Jira, Ubuntu, OPC DA integrations.
Bolt Threads Sep 2017 - May 2018
https://boltthreads.com/
Maintenance of a legacy, custom, in-house built, Lab Information Management System. Engineers responsible for the creation of the system had moved on. Upgrades to Rails and Ruby, and many 3rd party libraries.
Analysis of potential replacement third party LIMS systems.
Interviewed candidates for new Software Engineering leadership team (VP, Director, Sys Admins)
Integration of Windows-based OPC DA services with the LIMS system with new data sampling mechanisms
Created library to translate garment designs to instrumentation for a Stoll industrial knitting machine
Primary JIRA administrator for all company projects
Participated in Leadership Fundamentals training
Principal Engineer
Automation Team Lead
Web Team Lead
Stack - Rails 4.2, Ruby 2.3, RSpec, AngularJS 1.4, PostgreSQL, S3, ElasticSearch, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, CircleCI, Jenkins, Github Enterprise, ZenDesk, NewRelic
Invoice2Go Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
http://www.invoice2go.com
Lead the web team in development of the new web app at https://web.invoice.2go.com/
Laid the groundwork for new service architecture, implementation and continuous integration
Designing JIRA process, workflows and screens, and integration with ZenDesk
Designing and implementing git branching strategy and supporting toolchain
Implementing sandboxed dev env and tiered deployed environments
Design and implement feature flags allowing synchronized feature release across clients
Engineering Leadership role in Jakarta office
Senior Engineer
Stack - Rails 3.2, Ruby 2.0=>2.1, RSpec, React, EmberCLI, Haml, Slim, SASS, PostgreSQL, S3, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, TravisCI, Github, Salesforce, NewRelic, Heroku
Trumaker & Co Apr 2014 - Mar 2016
http://www.trumaker.com
Rebuilding architecture of entire tech stack
Extracting front-end parts to ember-cli and react thin clients
Building structured, authenticated, performant APIs, utilizing versioning and caching
Modernizing versions of Ruby, Rails, and many critical gems
Implementing backend to support launches of new product lines (blazers, ties, belts, pants, sweaters, tees, etc), fulfillment processes, factories, and shipping methods
Designed and created a fully spec’d 12-state Lead CRM tool
Integrated Salesforce with internal Lead CRM via my celluloid-io-pg-listener gem
Built a commissioned sales attribution framework that supports point-in-time history
Fixed the factory pattern and rewrote the spec suite, adding thousands of additional tests
Setup new deployed environments, created Thor deployment tool for automation of the many deployment related sub-tasks
Senior Staff Architect, Services
Stack - Ruby 1.8=>2.1, CGI, FastCGI, Mail gem, RSpec, Oracle 11g, rbenv, bash, daemons, RedHat linux
Church Pension Group Aug 2013 – Oct 2014
http://cpg.org (among others)
Forensic analysis of 5 year old ruby service layer
Upgrade from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.0, then 2.1
Created ruby service APIs to support many varied clients, & regression test suite
Implement account lock and token expiry security measures & automated enforcement
Upgrade daemon infrastructure and trading systems, improve software stack / `make` system
10x performance enhancement of internal services: former 20 req/s is now at least 200 req/s when the bottleneck changes to external resources.
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer
Stack - Rails 3.2, JRuby 1.7, Ruby 1.9=>2.0, RSpec, RequireJS, BackboneJS, Foundation, Slim, SASS, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, S3, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, Unicorn, Puma, TravisCI, Github, Librato Metrics, NewRelic, Heroku
Acquaintable.com – Socially curated dating through FoF Jun 2012 – Aug 2013
Acquired by LikeBright, now Reveal (Microsoft Ventures backed)
Built the entire site & made all tech decisions
Advised on all product and design decisions
Created matching engine with Neo4j + PostgreSQL data analysis algorithms
Mobile first, responsive design, with intuitive, touch-enabled mobile interface
Designed to provide an immediate experience to each new user
One page app design, in preparation for iPhone app
UX tool-chain: backbone-marionette, handlebars, RequireJS, slim, SASS, foundation
Ruby upgrade 1.9.3 to 2.0.0
Accepted into Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Winter 2013 class (ERA - NYC)
Fully automated and self-correcting, no intervention required for 4 months.
Successful exit via acquisition!
Senior Rubyist & Lead Developer
Stack - Rails 2.3, 3.0, 3.1 & 3.2, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, Grape, RSpec, RequireJS, Foundation, Slim, SASS, SOAP, Unicorn, Puma, Memcached, TeamCity, Git
Bloomberg Black – now dissolved Aug 2010 – Nov 2012
1st Employee, and lead developer of Bloomberg Black, a personal wealth management startup
I built internal gems:
VCR extensions: improved automated management / recording of soap interactions allows for isolated development, recorded sessions reduce dependency on service tier
Javascript: flyout menus, internally tabbed ajax pages, scrollspy, breadcrumbs
Spec suite with thousands of tests to enforce style guide, validate ruby namespace against collisions
SOAP services interface, generators for SOAP models and test fixtures; created version dependency resolution between Ruby layer and Java services
Rack middleware for fast custom logging => Splunk, 10ms per request improvement
Designed project structure: ajax widgets built out of reusable RequireJS modules, cells for componentized features, presenters for single instance variable, and logic free views
Spec infrastructure: created custom rspec matchers, acceptance tests, JS unit tests
CMS presentation code for the dynamic content on the site with all content available via static route or ajax widgets
Built the CMS backend for the content entry in the 100% javascript Rapid IDE
Manage the Rails infrastructure: gem dependencies & upgrades, ruby upgrades -v1.8.7 through 1.9.3, rails upgrades - v2.3 through v3.2.6
Maintained platform interoperability – Windows & RedHat & MacOS
Team Lead, Senior Engineer
Stack - Rails 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, Makandra Rails LTS, Ruby 1.8=>2.2, RSpec, Haml, CSS, MySQL, Memcached, Mongrel, Unicorn, TravisCI, Github, Redmine, NewRelic
Timeperks.com – Order meals online from favorite local restaurants Sep 2008 – Aug 2014
Mentored junior developers, and reviewed code
Built some of the more complex parts of the system, e.g. CX ghosting/masquerade tool
Created data reporting features, utilizes my csv_pirate gem.
Did all original, three-way, marketplace payment integration with Amazon FPS, and became maintainer of remit gem
Partner & Lead Developer (Ruby on Rails)
Stack - Rails 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, RSpec, Erb, Haml, CSS, jQuery, MySQL, Mongrel, Unicorn, Memcached, Github, Redmine, Debian, Ubuntu
Sagebit, LLC - now dissolved Jun 2007 – Dec 2011
Developed a Ruby on Rails based media storage and retrieval engine
Development, testing, deployment, and refactoring internal projects, including:
CartaBuzz – Find things to do near you (many third party APIs)
MonkeyStub – Get tickets to events fast (many third party APIs)
YetiMail – Snopes for Chain Letters / Spam / Phishing (web scraping; a fuzzy phrase analysis engine; AI)
Trained 5 new hires in Ruby, Rails, REST, and stateless programming
Likewise with all Rails-based client projects, including: social networks, nonprofits, data warehousing, and commercial sites
Biggest contract was with aSmallWorld, http://asmallworld.com:
Lead team of 10 developers converting old PHP site to Rails
Assisted sys-admins with setup and design of new load balanced 32 server production stack
Wrote forums, photo sharing, friend network presentation engine
Designed polymorphic basis for CMS in the new site
Moved millions of rows of data from the legacy tables to new rails friendly table designs and data models, and optimized SQL queries, and code structure for negligible downtime during PHP -> Rails migration
Optimized to handle 2MM uniques per month, and 300K page views per day
Designed and implemented page and user tracking
Built advertising minisite engine for Estee Lauder and Mercedes-Mclaren campaigns
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Stack - Rails 2.3, Ruby 1.9, RSpec, Memcached, EPub
Zondervan (Harper-Collins) Dec 2009 – Jul 2010
http://BibleGateway.com
Developed Google-inspired search engine for POC build of BibleGateway.com
http://github.com/pboling/awesome_search
Created dynamic tools used to import hundreds of publications into the system:
improve quality of data, metadata, and data linkages
incrementally index publications with Solr / Sunspot
Implemented advanced exception handling and reporting
Developed parser to transform raw text into HTML decorated with footnotes and many publishing formatting requirements
Founder & System Architect
Stack: Rails 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Redmine, DelayedJob, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, Debian, Ubuntu, Bash
9thBit, LLC (Rails Consulting) Mar 2007 – Jul 2010
Built a full-featured web application for a credit union (unable to disclose name)
Integrations with several payment gateways and money transfer services
Clients could transfer money from other institutions
Clients could make online withdrawals to other institutions
Advanced fraud detection and different levels of account locking
Built admin backend systems for credit union staff to use
Interest calculation
Nightly audits and reconciliation on accounts
Document upload system
Account statements, and ledgers
Notification system and support system, with knowledge base
All devops work, security hardening, server provisioning, backups, etc
System I created handled over $10 Million in deposits
Many thousands of accounts and users supported
Built a letter writing, printing, and mailing service (unable to disclose name)
Allows people to contact government officials, local, state, and national
Geolocates users to determine the correct legislators
Internet service, but real world result as a physical letter is delivered
Senior Developer, System Admin, Ruby on Rails
Stack - Rails 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, RSpec, Memcached
Neighborino, LLC Aug 2008 – Aug 2010
http://www.neighborino.com/ & http://demo.neighborino.com/
Photo sharing features, form handling, messaging, advertising services, calendaring.
Created a mailer daemon system to fix timeouts on the website when sending emails.
Systems Analyst / Developer (Ruby on Rails, XSL, C#, Shell)
Stack - Rails 1.1 & 1.2, Ruby 1.8, Oracle 8i, 9i & 10g, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, Redhat Linux, Windows IIS, XML, XSLT, Google Search Appliance
Legislative Services Agency (LSA) Apr 2006 – June 2007
http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/irtoc.htm
Developed search features for and deployed new Indiana Register website running on Tomcat, Cocoon, and Google Mini appliance
Created Indiana General Assembly's internal call center application running the House, Senate, and LSA call centers.
Setup Windows Server 2003 RoR staging & production environments with mongrel_cluster & Oracle 10g backend and IIS6 frontend
AJAX address based lookup of senate and house districts for constituents, with issue tracking, and daily summary email to legislators
Ruby on Rails Developer & Partner
Stack: Rails 0.14, 1.0, 1.1 & 1.2, Ruby 1.8, Nginx, Mongrel Cluster, Lighttpd, MySQL, Memcached, Redmine, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, Debian, Ubuntu, Bash
PanEther, LLC (Rails Consulting) Dec 2005 – Mar 2007
Built a fantasy football website for a client
Built a credit union web application, and administrative tools, for a client
Built a government advocacy web application for a client
Linux System Administrator & Developer (Rails, PHP, Java, Perl, Scheme, Shell)
Stack: Rails 0.10, 0.11, 0.12, 0.13, 0.14, 1.0 & 1.1, Ruby 1.8, Mongrel, MySQL, Memcached, Bugzilla, Bash
Optivel, Inc Dec 2004 – April 2006
Primary developer on first-ever enterprise-grade, Rails-based, ticketing system
Built a time tracking app in Rails for an IT consulting agency
Built AirBnB for planes in PhP
Managed a Debian apt repository mirror
Built and maintained internal debian packages handling configuration synchronization, key rotation, and automated backups.
Open source activism - Millions of RubyGem downloads since 2009
http://github.com/pboling – find my RubyGems, NPM & Bash libs, and jQuery plugins here
http://rubygems.org/profiles/pboling https://masterbranch.com/pboling
http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=pboling https://coderwall.com/pboling
Some gems I hack on
oauth2 – A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol: Maintainer since Dec 2017
https://github.com/oauth-xx/oauth2
debug_logging – Unobtrusive debug logging for Ruby without the litter: Author, Mar 2017
https://github.com/pboling/debug_logging
dynamoid – AWS DynamoDB ORM for Ruby: Maintainer since May 2016
https://github.com/Dynamoid/Dynamoid
celluloid-io-pg-listener – pub/sub for PostgreSQL and act on payload: Author Oct 2015
https://github.com/pboling/celluloid-io-pg-listener
flag_shih_tzu – Bitfields for ActiveRecord: Maintainer since Nov 2012
https://github.com/pboling/flag_shih_tzu
sanitize_email – Tools for testing email; Safety belt for using production data: Author Oct 2008
https://github.com/pboling/sanitize_email
And many more... http://rubygems.org/profiles/pboling
Humanitarian volunteer work
Since 2013 I have been helping refugees from Ivory Coast and Liberian civil wars re-establish themselves. Initially I rent apartments for refugees, purchase land, build cinder block homes, help them repatriate, find gainful employment, and farm on the land I give them. Refugees who cannot repatriate I help relocate to permanent new lives through UN programs. November 2015 my efforts became a registered Liberian NGO called Hope For Tomorrow. Thus far I have helped many hundreds of refugees.
Co-founder of the WordTree Foundation, http://blog.wordtree.org. Working on algorithms to enable scientific textual analysis (e.g. n-gram) of literary works to shed light on provenance, and external influence, especially for works written prior to the modern age, which will shed light on how human thought has evolved. All code is open source: http://github.com/wordtreefoundation
I contribute on an ongoing basis to the following charities:
United Way Africa Heartwood Project Hope For Tomorrow
Children International Kiva.org Heifer International
Other Technical Experience
Tier II Analyst & Mac Expert
Bell Industries, Tech.logix Group Apr 2003 – Dec 2004
PC Technician, IT Support, Internships @ Dec 2002 – Apr 2003
Legislative Services Agency (LSA) Dec 1998 – May 1999
Human Language Fluency
English (native) Spanish (fluent) Portuguese (fluent)
Indonesian (conversational)
Honors
Dean’s Honor List for College of Sciences and Humanities, Ball State University,
Spring ’98 and Spring ’99 (Computer Science)
Indiana Core 40 Honors Diploma, Muncie Central High School
Education
Ball State University, CS*, Science & Humanities, Muncie, IN 1997 – 1999, 3.6 GPA
Purdue University, MIS*, Science & Eng. Tech., Lafayette, IN 2002 – 2004 3.2 GPA
Ball State University, CS*, Science & Humanities, Muncie, IN 2004 – 2005, 3.4 GPA
Purdue University, CIT*, Engineering Technology, Indpls, IN 2005 – 2007 3.3 GPA
* Worked full-time, no debt, through college; flat-top roofer, sys-admin, web developer. I am eight classes short of a degree, and I have no intention of completing it.
Certifications
I am a certified, licensed, barista (coffee) in Australia; SITHFAB005 and SITXFSA001.
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