Susan Prestage

SKILLS

EMPLOYMENT

OneClickPolitics

Remote | 2021-2024

OCP provides a digital advocacy software platform used to connect constituents with their elected officials. The global engineering team supports a legacy rails app that provides grass roots organizations a quick and easy way to reach out to voters.

• Played a key role in the modernization of a legacy Rails 3 application, contributing to its transformation into a microservices architecture with a focus on multiple API-based design.
• Collaboratively designed and implemented a client-facing system, leveraging Twilio's SMS messaging API to enhance communication and replace the existing EZtexting messaging solution.
• Orchestrated the integration of diverse Government APIs (REST, SOAP, XML), ensuring seamless connectivity with external systems.
• Successfully reconstructed the Mapbox presentation of Cicero-sourced geo-location data, overcoming challenges from an undocumented starting point.
• Demonstrated proficiency with a technology stack including Rails 4, 6, 7, and React in a dynamic AWS environment.
• Contributed to mentoring junior developers and actively participated in conducting thorough code reviews.
• Leveraged keen attention to detail, coupled with strong skills in Rails console and Unix command line, to excel as one of the team's top troubleshooters.

Sportsrocket

Bellevue, WA | Remote | 2016-2019

Sportsrocket, a former New York-based company, revolutionized sports content delivery, offering on-demand access to live games, highlights, and shows. Known for its proprietary sports media operating system, the company excelled in producing, distributing, and monetizing content across diverse platforms. Known for its collaborative atmosphere, Sportsrocket fostered creative problem-solving, rapid iteration, and the development of cutting-edge features.

• Developed a worker application to consume TV show, movie, and sporting event XML data from the Gracenote API.
• Created and maintained APIs for both internal services and external client applications.
• Authored comprehensive API documentation, providing explanations and examples of supported requests and responses for both client and internal use.
• Programmed interactions with a variety of AWS services, leveraging Cloudwatch for logging and metrics, SNS and SQS for task flow management, and reading/writing data in S3 buckets.
• Utilized Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SASS, XML, nginx, and Redis in a modern agile software engineering environment.
• Operated within a structured development cycle, including source control, dev/stage/prod release phases, extensive testing, and continuous deployment practices.

Corgibytes

Remote | 2015-2016

A contracting group fostering skill development with legacy code and systems characterized by astonishingly low version numbers. Working as a remotely collaborative team, we support each other as we bring calm to the chaos inherent in the world's existing code.

• Led the transition of a client's content management system to S3 using AWS CLI.
• Maintained and introduced new features to the client's Rails 2 legacy codebase.
• Cultivated a high level of communication and collaboration among team members using tools such as Slack, Skype, and ScreenHero.
• Emphasized the importance of clear, concise code, leaving behind thorough instructions, readmes, and wikis for enhanced collaboration and project understanding.

workZeit

Remote | 2014-2015

A startup focused on developing a SAAS web application that revolutionizes the feedback process, providing a robust environment for teammates, managers, and companies. Notable for its sophisticated analytics tools, Featherlight offers an improved solution for one-on-one feedback and supports annual reviews.

• Conducted web development using Ruby in a Rails framework, showcasing strong backend and SQL skills to provide data to the frontend.
• Managed DevOps for all deployments, bugs, and live site issues.
• Collaborated within an agile, remote team, participating in daily standups and two-week sprints, utilizing tools such as Skype, Trello, Slack, Github, and Heroku.
• Utilized JavaScript and Angular for frontend development when needed.
• Led extensive refactoring efforts, transforming old code into a simpler, more readable, and easily modifiable form.

DreamBox Learning

Bellevue, WA | 2010-2011

An innovative venture providing adaptive learning and curriculum-based math lessons for K-5 students within an engaging web-based environment.

• Conducted server and client testing in a Ruby on Rails environment.
• Executed code merges into the production branch using SVN (Subversion) and deployed fixes to the production environment using Capistrano.
• Utilized NewRelic and Splunk to monitor the health of the livesite and troubleshoot any issues.
• Worked with agile methods, contributing to the release of server features and fixes to production every 6-8 weeks.
• Collaborated within a team to ensure system designs met internal scalability, performance, and reliability goals, with the capability to handle 10-100 times the current traffic.

Also contributed to teams at Cisco, Cray, Aventail, Microsoft, Google, and Expedia