I am an outgoing and energetic professional, seeking opportunities that allow my skills and personality to help grow individuals and businesses. I am best fit into a like minded atmosphere where I can help make positive changes that drive the business forward.
Ability to speak the language of vendors and clients alike. Work with my team to help communicate clear goals to reach success.
Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks at one time.
Energetic and consistently striving to influence an upbeat and positive attiutde.
As an Engineering Manager at Box, Inc., leading an internationally distributed team across Poland and the USA, I have the privilege of managing a Rich Content Editor application. One of the primary challenges with this application was dealing with its legacy system. Our team has to balance the need for modernization with the practical realities of working with a system that has been in place for years. To achieve this, we had to break down the project into smaller, more manageable components and prioritize them based on their impact on the overall system. We also had to work closely with other teams to ensure that our updates would not cause any unexpected issues in other parts of the system.
Managing an infrastructure team through a migration from on-premise server infrastructure to a cloud-hosted solution was another challenge. This was a critical project that had a significant impact on our customers, and we had to ensure that we could complete it without any significant disruptions. One particular challenge we faced was with the use of websockets. Websockets allowed us to establish a persistent connection between our servers and our customers' web browsers, which was essential for real-time collaboration and other features. However, we had to be very careful to ensure that our implementation of websockets did not compromise our customers' privacy and security.
Maintaining privacy and security for customers' data was a top priority throughout this project, and we had to follow strict protocols to achieve this. We worked closely with our security team to identify potential vulnerabilities and implement appropriate safeguards. We also conducted thorough testing to ensure that our migration to the cloud did not introduce any new security risks. Overall, my experience as an Engineering Manager at Box, Inc. was both challenging and rewarding. I continue to learn a great deal about managing teams across different locations and navigating complex technical projects.
Technologies used: NodeJS, ReactJS, VanillaJS, jQuery, t3, Redux, Typescript, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform
At Popmenu I began as a Lead Software Engineer leading a team of 4 Engineers with an embedded Product Manager and Product Desginer. I have since taken on an additional team comprised of 4 Engineers, 2 being off-shore, along with a Product Manager and Product Designer. I also manage 6 direct engineers to guide them with reaching their Career Growth, making sure they have everything they need to be successful in their day to day work as well as in their future endeavors.
Our team is responsible for 95% of the application footprint. We are currently in progress on rebuilding how our Menuing Hierarchy is structured.
Shortly after joining Popmenu and being assigned a squad, we quickly went to work on imrpoving our team processes. We worked together to identify and build our Team Charter so that everyone currently and incoming squad memebers were all on the same page of how we worked as a squad.
I am currently working to establish an online presence for our Engineering team by building a Popmenu Engineering site. This will allow our Engineers to share their learnings in our day to day work as well as share their discoveries within their own Engineering adventures.
Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, Heroku, Postgresql
At Listen360 I am the Engineering Manager/Web Architect leading the charge for defining how we build our Applications as we move forward. I am responsible for 5 Engineers. I help them with planning their Career Growth, making sure they have everything they need to be successful in their day to day work as well as in their future endeavors.
I work closely with our CTO, Product Designer and other Business stakeholders to guide our Roadmap.
I introduced an improved On-Boarding process that allows our new hires to come aboard and begin contirbution much more quickly. My latest new hires were able to begin contributing in weeks as compared to months using our previous On-Boarding Process.
I am currently leading and architecting our initiative to replace our Server Side Rails views with new Single Page Applications. We will be serving a mix of Ruby on Rails 3.2 with a Vue.js and TailwindCSS powered Component Library that we are building internally. The long term goal is to completely replace all of our Ruby on Rails ERB templates using our in-house Vue.js/TailwindCSS Component Library.
Successfully helped lead an initiative to migrate from our current Hosting provider, Rackspace, to AWS. This initiative makes use of many of the services AWS provides as well as some that are not. I have helped to build out and architect our new platform using Terraform to build our infrastructure as code. We are integrating a CI/CD workflow using CodePipeline, CodeDeploy and CodeBuild products. Our deployments will be facilitated in a Blue/Green manor with manual, as well as automated, steps within the pipeline. Our datastore will run through multiple RDS instances.
Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Rails API(gem), Resque(gem), Redis, RackSpace, AWS, Postgresql, TailwindCSS, Vue.js, ES6, Webpacker(gem)
My responsibilities at Manheim consist of being a mentor to many of the teams as an Advisory Engineer. Currently I am helping to assist our Enterprise Business Intelligence team with a strategic rollout of Adobe Analytics using Adobe DTM. My everyday responsibilities consist of being the Team Lead for one of 25 capability teams at Manheim.
Our most recent project was a complete redesign, visually and architecturally, of the Manheim Market Report for our customers to view transaction history for a given Year, Make, Model, Style or VIN. This new experience is a ReactJS frontend with a Ruby on Rails API backend.
I was involved from day one with the architectural design of this new approach for this application. We chose to use a Rails API backend due to the performance advantages and the current skillset of the team members. The backend API was designed as an Aggregate API that allows for multiple requests to be sent and a single response returned with the payload requested.
The React application is a consumer of our backend API, dubbed gateway_api. It also is a consumer of other internal API's within the Manheim family of applications. We use Redux for internal state management. Redux Saga is used for handling side-effects in our store.
Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Rails API(gem), Sidekiq(gem), Redis, Docker, AWS, Postgresql, ReactJS, ES6
I work as a Rails engineer on the Dynamic Tag Management team. This product was aqcuired by Adobe in August 2013. Dynamic tag management gives marketers intuitive tools to manage an unlimited number of Adobe and third-party tags that can then trigger personalized experiences based on behavior, all in real time.
Dynamic Tag Management is powered by MongoDB, Postgresql, HAML, SCSS, Sidekiq, Heroku, AWS EC2/S3/CloudFront as well as countless others.
I am one of two in-house developers working on the next generation platform for Tag Management/User Discovery System. We employ a hybrid stack of technologies to drive the Satellite application.
I work with technologies such as MongoDB, Postgresql, HAML, SCSS, delayed_job and countless others.
Team Lead of 3 pairs of developers. I work closely with Product and Business Analysts to determine the optimal path for completing feature requsts.
I work with my team members and a third party consultancy(ThoughtWorks) on a platform targeting Retail/Wholesale Automotive dealers. I work with Spine.js and Ruby/Rails development using MongoDB as a data store. RSpec and Cucumber are daily tools that I use for TDD & BDD approaches to my day to day development.
I work with my team members and a third party consultancy(Hashrocket) on a Multimedia Delivery system targerted to Cable set top boxes as well as Mobile and PC based systems. I work on UI and backend Ruby/Rails development using MongoDB as a data store. RSpec and Cucumber are daily tools that I use for TDD & BDD approaches to my day to day development.
Extended the feature set of an internal tool to manage the many cases and clients we serve. This tool was originally implemented with PHP and .NET, when I was hired in we evaluated the state of the tool and decided to rewrite the tool from the ground up with Ruby on Rails. Implemented Standardization of Systems, Hardware, and Business Processes.
Mending Soul comes from the healing we have to do as a Planet. It is so very important that we as humans show compassion to one another not just in dire times of need but all the time. Mending Soul hopes to help facilitate those types of interactions.
Our immediate focus is to help fulfill the needs of Healthcare Workers, First Responders and those who are in situations where PPE(Personal Protective Equipment) is a must. Phase 1 is to do outreach through Facebook to either fulfill needs where we can ourselves or be able to make a connection between a Request for an Item with a Creator who can fulfill that request. Phase 2 will bring that same model online via a Distribution platform where Creators can go online to find those Requests and make the connection on their own.
LDUG is a language agnostic meetup group. Our first meetup had 39 Duggers; this is what we call ourselves.
Evan Sparkman — me@evansparkman.com — (404)-621-3125