Andrew DeFranco - Web Developer

Experience

Full-Stack Software Engineer at Affinitiv, Inc.

Product: Higher Gear Automotive Customer Relationship Management Software

Updated product to a modern and responsive web app written in React and Python and hosted on AWS
Transitioned to a microservice architecture from a 15-year-old Delphi monolithic codebase
Designed and implemented an entirely new D3 dashboard to deliver critical business insights
Created a suite of interactive reports to enable clients to drill-down into customer-interaction data
Built secure integrations with data-partners’ APIs over HTTP and AMQP
Ensured cross-platform usability of information-rich views on phones, tablets, and large computer screens

Portfolio

Presentation at NYC.rb

Writing Less Ruby, the Ruby Way

Explored techniques for integrating performance-optimized SQL queries with Rails’ ActiveRecord ORM in a tech talk at the NYC.rb meetup

Snail Manager

Manage Mailing Addresses

Personal web app built in Ruby on Rails for managing wedding invitations and other mass correspondence
Leverages in-SQL immutable data paradigms to capture and expose data-values over time
Prints labels using a Custom-built CSS template implemented with flexbox

Tagit.audio

Listen To and Tag Podcasts

(loosely modeled after SoundCloud)

Single-page app built in Ruby on Rails and React following REST principles
Provides additional playback controls through a custom wrapper around the native HTML audio element
Implements universal search at database layer by indexing metadata and user tags across tables
Built for scalability by offloading computationally intensive tasks to asynchronous background processes

EmojiSweeper

Minesweeper Clone, Built Functionally

Manages multiple cascading effects with limited overhead through a peer-to-peer architecture
Runs 100% client-side using JavaScript with CSS and jQuery animations

Skills

JavaScript

React + Flux

HTML5

Sass/CSS3

jQuery

Python

Ruby

Rails

SQL

Redis

AMQP

GitHub

Mercurial

Linux

AWS

Heroku

Experience

Full-Stack Software Engineer at Affinitiv, Inc.

Product: Higher Gear Automotive Customer Relationship Management Software

Portfolio

Presentation at NYC.rb

Writing Less Ruby, the Ruby Way

Snail Manager

Manage Mailing Addresses

Tagit.audio

Listen To and Tag Podcasts

(loosely modeled after SoundCloud)

EmojiSweeper

Minesweeper Clone, Built Functionally

Sample Code

A jQuery plug-in to zoom-in on a high resolution image as user mouses over thumbnail.

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