Jason Schweier
Software Developer with 3 years experience working on full-stack MVC web frameworks, including Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET MVC.
Eager to join a great organization that prefers teamwork, strives for technical excellence, and embraces experimentation and learning.
Experience
Freelance @ Ryatta Group
Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Developer • Dec 2015 — Present
Consultant on client and in-house products
- implemented Checklick's online Storefront
- a guest access pass system for FourSeasons' Hualali Resort
- co-designed extensions to flagship product ROBE for Spa™ (formerly, SpaDirect™)
CampaignCtrl
Web Application Developer • Jun 2015 — Oct 2015
Developed a Voter Relationship Management system, a bespoke voter-oriented CRM for political campaigns with Ruby on Rails
- implemented a query builder to perform complex voter searches
- integrated 3rd Party APIs: rich email creation and tracking system with Sendgrid, VOIP PBX Virtual Call Center
- built test suite to validate client needs and to support developer productivity
Freelancer @ Lab416 (formerly WackyWave Labs)
Full-Stack Web Developer • Jan 2015 — Apr 2015
Built and maintained client projects, including Grocerease using ASP.NET MVC and AngularJS
Effix Solutions
Full-Stack & API Developer • May 2014 — Dec 2014
Intern • Feb 2014 — Apr 2014
Consultancy work ranging from e-commerce to corporate management portals using ASP.NET MVC
Freelance
Front-End Developer • Oct 2013 — Dec 2013
Produced responsive designs from mockups using Bootstrap and jQuery
Technical Skills and Certifications
Languages
Proficient: Ruby
Experienced: C#
Familiar with: Python, Haskell, Octave/MATLAB, php
Interest and Curiosity: Go, Elixir / Erlang / OTP, Elm
Web
HTML, JavaScript, Coffeescript, CSS (Bootstrap, Sass), AngularJS
Web Frameworks
Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET MVC 4, Wordpress
Databases
PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server 2008, MongoDB
Tools
git, Trello, Basecamp, AWS
Certifications
Projects
Education
University of Toronto
Honours BSc, Mathematics & Physics • 2008
Professional Development
As a self-taught developer, I am strongly motivated for continuous learning, and work hard to refine and expand my knowledge portfolio.
MOOCs
Massively open online classes, teaching everything from CSS to Haskell, MVC to Hadoop
My previous resume site cataloged my MOOC participation (currently 39 completed). I'm currently working my way through:
- Introduction to Operating Systems
- Algorithms II, since I completed the first part
Currently Reading
- The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt & Dave Thomas
- Rails Antipatterns by Chad Pytel & Tammer Saleh
- The Go Programming Language by Alan A. Donovan & Brian W. Kernighan
- The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
Associations & Conferences
Toronto Ruby Brigade
Co-organizer of Workshop • Jan 2016 — Present
Participant • Aug 2013 — Present
Help with researching topics, preparing slides, and coding materials
- Speed Sprint — five Gosu projects where you start where the previous team left off
- Asteroids — a clone of the classic arcade game using the Gosu game framework and Chipmunk physics engine
- Shazbot — building Slack chatbots and integrating with 3rd party APIs
- FBBot — continuing hacking on chat bots, this time using Facebook Messenger and integrating natural language processing via wit.ai