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Russ Brooks

Full Stack Web Developer

Built & managed the Philadelphia Eagles site for 2 NFL seasons. Current obsessions: eliminating Transpiling from the planet. Fast technology that scales at 1.0. All things AI.

Experience

Trainual.com

Full Stack Web Developer & Data Engineer
  • Sr. Dev: Wrote a number of new features from the main application.
  • Data Science Engineer: Rolled out dbt.
  • Data Science Engineer: Built the analytics IaC.

Since Nov 2020, Scottsdale, AZ

ShopRunner.com

Full Stack Web Developer
  • Added features to the main application and Kotlin/Python microservices.
  • Serverless: Wrote AWS Lambda in Python on Flask.

2015 - 2020, Conshohoken, PA

TelVue

Sr Engineer, Web Devlopment Mgr, Director of Software Engineering
  • Added lots of features to their Suite of Rails-based products.
  • Recruiting: Assembled and trained the Dev Team.
  • Created TelVue Connect, their flagship SAAS product - TelVue's first modern stack.
  • IaC: in Chef

2007 - 2016, Mt. Laurel, NJ

NetReach

Web Design Mgr, Project Mgr, Sr Engineer
  • Consulting, Coding, Management
  • Hired 5-person Design Dept
  • Managed, engineered, or designed ~30 projects, including the Philadelphia Eagles

1999 - 2005, Ambler, PA

Network Engineering & Office Solutions (NEOS) corp (dba Atlantic Image).

President / Founder / Web Designer-Developer
  • Built a customer base of 70 clients, mostly oceanfront hotels and restaurants.
  • Built the first website Cape May County had ever seen.

1993 - 1998, Wildwood, NJ

Aqua Beach Resort: Most-popular hotel in Wildwood.

Director Front-Desk Operations, Controller, Sys Admin, Web Designer
  • 22 yeasrs old.
  • Promoted to Night Auditor in 1 mo. Promoted to Front Desk Mgr 1 mo later.
  • Assembled and trained team of 10 Desk Clerks and 2 Night Auditors annually. My direct reports.
  • All the bookkeeping.
  • Systems Administrator: Rolled out their first network (Win NT), website, etc.
  • Automation:. Replaced legacy manual processes with technology.
  • Fixed a number process and service problems, cutting costs and raising guest sat.

1992 - 1998, Wildwood, NJ.

Skills

Programming Languages

Ruby

ES6

TypeScript

Python

VBS

Shell Script

SQL

C#

Turbo Pascal

Learning Rust & Go

Libraries and Frameworks

Deno

Express

Fresh

Flask

Node.js

Nest

Preact

Rails

React

Sinatra

Further Knowledge

DataDog, NewRelic

dbt

Docker, Kubernetes, GKE

GCP, AWS

Git, GitHub Actions

HTML, SASS, Tailwind CSS

Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS

Lambdas & Cloud Functions

Redis, MemCache

Resque, Sidekiq

Segment.io, GA4

Semaphore, Tavis CI, Jenkins

Serverless

Projects

Certs and Awards

MicroSoft Certified Professional (MCP): FrontPage

2001

MicroSoft

MicroSoft Certified SharePoint Professional (MCSP)

2004

MicroSoft

Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) PhotoShop

2004

Adobe Corporation

Bronze Medal: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Computer Olympics

1988: Sr Year in HS

Turbo Pascal: Atomic Mass Converter

Silver Medal: Stockton State College Science Fair

1987: Jr Year in HS

Turbo Pascal: Atomic Mass Converter

Education

Wildwood High School

1988

Honor Roll Jr and Sr Year.

University of Autodidactica

Since 1988

School always got in the way of my education. 😏

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