Steve Robinson

Steve Robinson

Mentor
Rising Codementor
US$15.00
For every 15 mins
ABOUT ME
Full Stack Developer with a passion to help developers & businesses
Full Stack Developer with a passion to help developers & businesses

I'm a seasoned developer with a focus on crafting elegant and maintainable software coupled with a strong product mindset enabling you to not only go-to-market swiftly but also making sure the software is flexible and extensible so it can adapt to your changing business needs and models.

Expert on Ruby on Rails & ReactJS. I have experience build applications in the entertainment, healthcare & eCommerce domains and a capacity to learn your project's domain so I could deliver value efficiently for you.

I can work with you on

— Full stack design and development with Ruby on Rails, ReactJS or the other technologies I'm listing below.
— Scaling, upgrading & maintaining your legacy project
— Augmenting your product team
— Producing a solution architecture for your project
— Technical mentoring

I've got extensive expertise with the following technologies & services:

— Ruby on Rails / JavaScript / AngularJS / ReactJS / HTML & CSS
— Elixir (Phoenix framework) / Golang / Rust
— PostgreSQL / Redis / Firebase
— Docker / PubNub real-time messaing / API Integrations / imagemagick
— AWS - RDS, EC2, SQS, Lambda, Rekognition
— Wowza Streaming Engine / JWPlayer / ffmpeg
— Mixpanel / Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager / Segment.io

If you are interested in any of the services I provide and if you are looking for expertise in the above mentioned technologies, do contact me for an initial consultation and we can work out an engagement plan that's tailored to your needs.

I'm always looking to forge long term relationships with my clients that is beneficial mutually.

In addition to receiving technical expertise for your project, you will also work with someone who's intent on listening to you keenly, communicating commitments and ideas clearly, setting the right expectations and mitigating risks actively making sure your engagement will be a positive one.

I'm also an avid reader of books and an infinite learner, making sure I'm on top of the major shifts in the tech landscape.

Do drop me a message, would love to talk to you today!

English
Chennai (+05:30)
Joined December 2017
EXPERTISE
6 years experience
Expertise in Rails built over 6 years of designing, crafting and scaling applications in a variety of business domains. Focus on writing ...
Expertise in Rails built over 6 years of designing, crafting and scaling applications in a variety of business domains. Focus on writing clean and maintainable code that can change easily adapting to business needs. Keen applying a pragmatic combination of Object Oriented Design and Functional Programming concepts in my code.
2 years experience
Built number of frontend applications of varying complexity with React from sprinkles to full-fledged SPAs. Invested in the "React way" o...
Built number of frontend applications of varying complexity with React from sprinkles to full-fledged SPAs. Invested in the "React way" of building software with composition, immutability and reactivity.
Es6Reduxnpm
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4 years experience
Over 4 years of experience in deploying various kinds of software in the AWS cloud. Worked with a number of cutting edge AWS products inc...
Over 4 years of experience in deploying various kinds of software in the AWS cloud. Worked with a number of cutting edge AWS products including AWS API Gateway, Lambda, Rekognition, etc and also the staple services of current DevOps practices - EC2, S3, RDS, etc. I can help with your infrastructure from setting things up from scratch or helping you fix problems or scaling.

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EMPLOYMENTS
Head of Technology
GeoSnapShot Pty. Ltd.
2017-05-01-Present
As the tech head of the Syndey based event photography selling platform, I'm responsible for managing and directing software development ...
As the tech head of the Syndey based event photography selling platform, I'm responsible for managing and directing software development efforts, hiring engineers for the team and designing, architecting and iterating on our product roadmap. Architected and enabled the delivery of cutting edge functionalities including photo retrieval using facial and text recognition. Led the effort to revamp the UI / UX of the product coordinating with design agencies. Ruby on Rails / ReactJS / Golang / AWS Lambda / AWS SQS / Blitline / PubNub / Face Recognition
Ruby on Rails
Facebook
Image Processing
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Ruby on Rails
Facebook
Image Processing
PayPal
Machine Learning
Payment gateway
React
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Principal Software Consultant
Spritle Software
2013-06-01-Present
Worked with several clients from project inception till delivery, architecting and crafting quality maintainable software, while also men...
Worked with several clients from project inception till delivery, architecting and crafting quality maintainable software, while also mentoring and growing a talented team at the dev shop. Major Projects: Kastio - http://www.kastio.com - Designed, developed and shipped the MVP of a next-gen live video streaming platform for Eventstream Inc. (Canada) in 3 months and worked with the customer for over 2 years iterating on the product and adapting it for shifting business models. Built with Ruby on Rails and AngularJS integrating with PubNub for real-time messaging and Wowza for streaming services. - Ruby / Rails / AngularJS / Wowza / Golang / JWPlayer GeoSnapShot - http://www.geosnapshot.com - Performed a complete rewrite of a PHP application into Ruby on Rails for an event photography e-commerce platform based in Syndey, Australia. Worked with the client for over 2 years post successful deployment, dealing with scaling and performance upgrades as the user base soared.
HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
jQuery
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HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
jQuery
Angular
Stripe
React
Mentoring
Redux
Agile
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PROJECTS
Eventstream Inc.
2015
Designed, developed and shipped the MVP of a next-gen live video streaming platform for Eventstream Inc. (Canada) in 3 months and worked ...
Designed, developed and shipped the MVP of a next-gen live video streaming platform for Eventstream Inc. (Canada) in 3 months and worked with the customer for over 2 years iterating on the product and adapting it for shifting business models. Built with Ruby on Rails and AngularJS integrating with PubNub for real-time messaging and Wowza for streaming services. - Ruby / Rails / AngularJS / Wowza / Golang / JWPlayer As the tech lead for the project, was responsible for communication and coordination with the client, research and architecture of the product. Also had a splendid experience mentoring two of my teammates during the project
HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
Angular
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HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
Angular
Video streaming
Stripe
Wowza Streaming Engine
Go (Golang)
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GeoSnapShotView Project
GeoSnapShot Pty. Ltd.
2014
Initial scope involved a complete rewrite of a PHP photography & eCommerce platform in Ruby on Rails. Delivered the project in under thre...
Initial scope involved a complete rewrite of a PHP photography & eCommerce platform in Ruby on Rails. Delivered the project in under three months and deployed it on AWS in a highly available cluster. Designed and developed the core business logic of the application, hooking up with image processing APIs and payment gateway (Braintree). Also performed monitoring and performance upgrades on the application as the service scaled from hundreds of users to tens of thousands.
Ruby on Rails
Image Processing
PayPal
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Ruby on Rails
Image Processing
PayPal
Machine Learning
React
Braintree
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