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[davidjbeveridge@gmail.com](mailto:davidjbeveridge@gmail.com)<br />
[(970) 315-2387](tel:9703152387)<br />
[github.com/davidjbeveridge](https://github.com/davidjbeveridge)<br />

## Summary

- Team leader with knowledge of software engineering principles and an eye
  toward quality, scalability, and developer productivity.
- Eight years experience building web applications, doing full-stack development
  with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, JavaScript MV\*, ES6/ES7/ES20\*, CoffeeScript, PHP, Scala/Play.
- Significant experience building front-end and single-page applications
  using semantic HTML, CSS3, JavaScript (React.js, Redux, Backbone.js, etc),
  and more
- Depth of knowledge in JavaScript (both front-end and back-end), HTML, CSS, and
  Software Engineering.
- Breadth of knowledge across several stacks, build systems, roles, engineering
  practices, and project management.

## Work Experience

### Originate, (2012-2016)
[www.originate.com](http://www.originate.com)

#### JavaScript Architect

- Trained and mentored devlopers with a focus JavaScript best-practices and
  software engineering principles.
- Maintained an active development role on multiple projects, including tech
  lead roles.
- Defined code-review process and best practices
- Stressed the use of test-driven development for all JavaScript code
  (front-end and back-end), and provided related training and mentoring.
- Led code review across all projects, focusing on JavaScript best-practices and
  test-driven development.

#### Senior Software Engineer

- Developed multiple web applications across the whole stack, in both lead and
  support roles.
- Large percentage of work focused on front-end JavaScript with MV\* frameworks
  like React.js and Backbone.js.
- Used Test-Driven Development, code reviews, and constant refactoring to keep
  the codebase clean and maintainable, and keep all developers familiar with
  codebase.
- Projects included rapid prototyping, greenfield development work, upgrades,
  work with legacy software, and rescue operations.
- Deployment and DevOps work for multiple projects including work with Debian,
  Ubuntu, Apache, Passenger, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and others.

***Keywords**: JavaScript, ES6, ES7, ES2015, ES2016, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra,
Grape.rb, Node.js, Express.js, React.js, Redux, Flux, Backbone.js, Spine.js,
Underscore.js, jQuery, Telerik KendoUI, CoffeeScript, Sass, LESSCSS, Stylus,
Bootstrap, Responsive Design, Haml, Jade, Slim, HTML5, Markdown, PHP, Python,
Scala, Play, TDD, Code Review, Legacy Software, Refactoring, Mobile-first,
Git, GitHub*

### Card Gnome, Inc. (2010-2012)
[www.cardgnome.com](http://www.cardgnome.com)

Card Gnome is a greeting card company, specializing in direct-to-recipient delivery.

#### Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

- Instituted Behavior-Driven Development in order to improve communication
  between team members, automate the acceptance process, and improve product
  quality.
- Led team of four, developing an eCommerce application.
- Documented development processes, including tool installation, environment
  setup, version control usage & flow, and testing process.
- Coached other team members on object-oriented design, code maintainability,
  version control, testing, and programming  skills, i.e., JavaScript, Ruby.
- Created web-to-print system, including a robust visual editor (implemented in
  JavaScript), and Ruby back-end that would render cards as a PDF, create
  thumbnails, and send proofs to printer.
- Provided technical support for customers and the artist community.
- Documented development practices and installation.
- Automated common development tasks: webserver & worker process, management,
  database control, logging, remote consoles, deployment.

***Keywords**: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Spine.js, Sass, XHTML, CSS, DevOps*

### StudioDBC (2008-2010)
(no link)

StudioDBC was a web consultancy I co-founded, now defunkt.

#### Web developer

- Worked directly with multiple small-business clients to deliver brand-driven
  web presence, eCommerce solutions, and miscellaneous technical solutions.
- Interfaced directly with clients and designer to develop specifications and
  acceptance criteria.
- Engineered web sites at every level—data models, business logic, rich user
  interface, and interaction.
- Created web solutions using PHP/MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress,
  Codeigniter, and Magento
- Developed custom, brand-specific WordPress themes for clients
- Developed several WordPress plugins to manage content, display slideshows,
  embed video, transform podcast feeds into xspf feeds, and manage reproducible
  page state with AJAX requests
- Used both Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation to deliver
  excellent user experience on multiple browsers including multiple versions of
  IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Mobile.
- Administered LAMP webservers, including configuration, security, and
  deployment.

***Keywords**: JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, PHP, WordPress, CodeIgniter, Magento,
MySQL,*
jQuery

{:#presentations}
## Presentations

### TDD In JavaScript
[http://davidbeveridge.net/TDD-in-JavaScript/index.html](http://davidbeveridge.net/TDD-in-JavaScript/index.html)

A three-part talk I gave Sept. 18, 2015 for [Radial Development
Group](http://radialdevgroup.com/) on doing Test-Driven Development with
JavaScript. The slides mostly cover TDD as a practice. This was followed by
sections on doing TDD with Backbone.js and React.js, both with some live coding
as an example.

[TDD In JavaScript](http://davidbeveridge.net/TDD-in-JavaScript/index.html)

[Behavior-Driven Development With
Backbone.js](http://davidbeveridge.net/TDD-in-JavaScript/backbone-tdd.html)

[Behavior-Driven Development With
React.js](http://davidbeveridge.net/TDD-in-JavaScript/react-tdd.html)

### Is this thing on? Testing JavaScript, 1, 2, 3.
[https://github.com/davidjbeveridge/TDD-is-this-thing-on](https://github.com/davidjbeveridge/TDD-is-this-thing-on)

Presented May 27, 2015 at the Colorado Springs JavaScript Meetup, this was the
first version of my talk on TDD with JavaScript. I covered TDD as a practice,
and then did some live code demonstrating TDD on a sample project, which was a
proof-of-concept for a script loader that only executes scripts matching a known
hash. 

### ActiveRecord Migrations
[http://davidbeveridge.net/ActiveRecord-Migrations-Presentation](http://davidbeveridge.net/ActiveRecord-Migrations-Presentation)

I originally presented this talk in 2012 to the Las Vegas Ruby Group. The group
was making our way through "The Rails 3 Way", and I presented on ActiveRecord
Migrations. Much of the information for this talk was taken from Chapter 6, and
opined in person.


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