Wayne Hoover

Senior Software Engineer

w@waynehoover.com

(424) 229-2414

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Profile

I am a full stack software engineer with 14 years experience building on the web with Ruby on Rails, and 3 years of experience working in the crypto industry with Solidity and NodeJS.

I take pride in creating maintainable, scalable and efficient web apps that produce results.

Skills

Front-end

React, Stimulus, Svelte

Back-end

Rails, NodeJS, Elixir

Blockchain

Solidity, Foundry, Hardhat

Technical Proficiency

  • 14 years experience with Rails
  • EVM
  • Test Driven Development
  • Expert Javascript / NodeJS
  • Foundry
  • AWS
  • Mentorship
  • Solidity
  • Tailwind

Experience

Sr. Software Engineer

KODE Health

8/2022-Present

  • Help architect and build the first on demand medical coding platform at KodeHealth
  • Ruby on Rails first with Stimulus on the frontend
  • Rails, Postgres, Heroku, Redis

Sr. Software Engineer

Boost Studios

11/2022-1/2023

  • Lead Solidity developer building the Quest Protocol.
  • A protocol for depositing and claiming rewards after on chain actions
  • NodeJS & Solidity

Sr. Software Engineer

Mint Songs

1/2022-9/2022

  • Senior software engineer for web3 music startup MintSongs
  • Mentor junior engineers
  • Architect a scalable, fast NFT indexer in Rails
  • Design and maintain NFT contracts on multiple blockchains
  • Rails, React & Solidity

Sr. Software Engineer

Netlify

5/2020-1/2022

  • Senior software engineer for Netlify
  • Help scale a large Rails API codebase
  • Focus on enterprise payment systems
  • MongoDB tuning and performance

Sr. Software Engineer

Legitscript

11/2017-2/2020

  • Senior software engineer for the internet compliance company Legitscript
  • Serverless microservice architecture
  • Large Rails apps
  • Angular / Typescript
  • Distributed Systems

Sr. Software Engineer

LoylatyNZ

2/2015-7/2016

  • Senior Ruby developer for the leading loyalty program in New Zealand LoyaltyNZ
  • Highly available API built with Ruby micro-services
  • Deep integration with Amazon Web Services

Ruby Developer

Uptrending

2/2012-6/2014

  • Ruby on Rails developer for web development firm Uptrending
  • Lead developer on a number of Ruby on Rails projects
  • Developed highly interactive websites with AngularJS
  • Dadatabase experience: Postgres, Mysql, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB.
  • Some examples of websites I worked on include BenchmarkWine.com and FLGPartners.com.

Freelance

Developer/Producer

3/2011-2/2012

  • Founded CreativeFlow.io a web development agency
  • Manage designers and developers for a number of highly custom sites
  • Consult on best practices and efficient plan of action

Lead In-House Developer

Executionists.com

8/2010-3/2011

  • Lead front-end developer and project manager for back-end development
  • In charge of tech QA and final implementation
  • Advisor to staff on tech solutions, innovative web technologies and efficient development cycle
  • Assist in time/cost estimates for proposals

Freelance

Developer and Entrepreneur

1/2008-8/2010

  • Complete website development
  • Founder of PureBinauralBeats.com and HealingBeats.com

Howard Hughes Medical Center at UCSC

Systems Administrator Intern

1/2007-1/2008

  • Maintained large cluster of Linux file servers, web servers and general purpose servers
  • Maintained two thousand processor computing clusters, with 100% uptime a top priority
  • Troubleshot down or slow Redhat and FreeBSD servers
  • Configured Apache optimization
  • Developed in Bash, Python and Perl
  • See my UCSC CUIP success story

Education

University of California at Santa Cruz

B.A. in Philosophy, 2007

Wayne Hoover — w@waynehoover.com — (424) 229-2414