Efren Aguirre

Core responsibilities consists of back-end development, working with elasticsearch, debugging site issues, and seo. Features and site improvements that I was responsible for: building merchandise filters and rebuilding search components integrated with elasticsearch, Rails 4 transition, coupon system, building an API with Grape. Additionally, I contributed to site optimizations, test suite refactoring, partner integration, and managing app services.

Implemented new landing page, fully equipped with mobile responsiveness thanks to Bourbon, Neat, and Flexbox and also addressed other cross-browser issues that were affecting the app. Refactored portions of the site that were underperforming and implemented new checkout process with stripe. Due to increased traffic, consulted scaling options with Heroku.

Building ecommerce app for customized merchandise. Using Rails 4.2 with PostgreSQL for back-end while using Angular on the front-end for custom design tool. Custom design tool originally implemented for apache, mysql, and php, but was modified to be implemented with current rails app being built. Bourbon neat, sass, coffeescript, and javascript being the other main components used for the front-end.

Building analytics and monitoring system for Bitcoin mining rigs. Using Rails 4.1 with PostgreSQL for relational data and InfluxDB for time series data. Built a hypermedia api with grape to interact with firmware. On the front-end, Ember used with D3 to provide charts along with Bourbon and Neat to provide styling.

Building analytics system that tracks user interaction in iOS apps. System built with Rails; Redis used for metrics; and Grape used for api. Dashboard on front-end built with Bootstrap 3. Implementing interstitial ads for app that we are partnered with. Ad implementation requiring no SDK, external dependencies, and as little code as possible.

Writing blog posts for Setapick Lab's Tealeaf Academy Blog. Posts consist of comprehensive coverage of Rail's topics for beginners.

Completed phase 1 of the beta-invite landing page. I was given a psd and was asked to start building a Rails app using Bootstrap 3, Postgresql, and Heroku. This phase also required that I setup the db for the beta-list and provide the ability to grant permission for beta-invites.

Worked throughout January and February helping out with their backlogs. I worked primarily on two Spree apps: bluebottlecoffee.com and quarterly.co. Some of the major issues that I worked on was providing site admins the ability to manage customer credit cards, manage addresses to paid subscriptions, and provide various reports regarding product performance. I also helped with various troubleshooting issues regarding front-end functionality.