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Senior Ruby on Rails developer and technology leader with extensive experience building and modernizing full-stack products, APIs, and deployment pipelines across AWS and other cloud platforms. Strengths include Ruby/Rails application modernization, React integration, performance-focused data and analytics work, and leading cross-functional engineering operations.…

Benjamin David Nelson

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Software Engineer, +2

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Senior Ruby on Rails developer and technology leader with extensive experience building and modernizing full-stack products, APIs, and deployment pipelines across AWS and other cloud platforms. Strengths include Ruby/Rails application modernization, React integration, performance-focused data and analytics work, and leading cross-functional engineering operations.…

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Senior Ruby on Rails developer and technology leader with extensive experience building and modernizing full-stack products, APIs, and deployment pipelines across AWS and other cloud platforms. Strengths include Ruby/Rails application modernization, React integration, performance-focused data and analytics work, and leading cross-functional engineering operations.

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Work Experience

Senior Ruby-on-Rails Developer at First Data Bank

January 1, 2023 - Present

Built and maintained a Rails full-stack drug book application. Transitioned a codebase to a new partner while preserving legacy customer functionality. Migrated deployments from Capistrano/ECS EC2 to AWS ECS with Fargate. Contributed to an AI team building products using OpenAI.

Senior Ruby-on-Rails Developer at FindItParts.com

August 1, 2020 - January 1, 2023

Developed analytics using DynamoDB. Upgraded Rails to version 7. Managed and oversaw product data feed API integrations.

CTO & Ruby-on-Rails/PHP Developer at OnceThere.com

August 1, 2015 - August 1, 2020

Oversaw all development operations for the Oncethere.com platform. Rewrote and maintained multiple Ruby-on-Rails applications and rewrote all clients in React. Used Capistrano and Chef for deployments. Maintained legacy Laravel apps and built a Sinatra API.

CTO & Ruby-on-Rails Developer at FastF an, Inc.

March 1, 2013 - January 1, 2014

Hired to overhaul a legacy PHP system, wrote Python ETL scripts, and moved the entire codebase to Ruby on Rails and AngularJS within three months. Developed scripts and tasks to pull hundreds of millions of records from 3rd party APIs into Elasticsearch and MySQL, and supported deployment across platforms.

CEO at Parallel Solutions

August 1, 2008 - December 1, 2012

Founded and led a big-data enterprise platform company funded by capital injection and profits from military contracts. Oversaw five developers and three executives. Learned and implemented MongoDB after MySQL became difficult to manage and too slow. Administered Ubuntu servers on both Rackspace and Amazon.

Chemistry Professor at Odessa College

August 1, 2007 - August 1, 2008

Taught seven introductory chemistry courses and labs. Performed theoretical mathematics research on Dr. Manheim's alternatives to Einstein's field equations using Maple.

Design Engineer at Nelk or Industries

April 1, 2007 - August 1, 2007

Designed parts and performed machining for custom mechanical and oil-industry components supplied to West Texas.

Research Assistant at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

May 1, 2004 - April 1, 2007

Researched cancer and tissue rejection under the guidance of Dr. Charles Faust, Associate Dean of Cell Biology and Biochemistry.