Bryan

Full-Stack Software / Web Developer

Building thoughtful web applications and developer tools from New York City.

Open to

Location New York, NY Remote
Availability Immediately
Type Full-time Contract

Prefer async-friendly teams with strong engineering culture.

Experience

Blue Nest Digital LLC Lead Developer, Owner
Sep 2015 – Present · New York, New York

Full Stack Software and Web Developer, Self Employed

  • Technologies: PHP, Javascript, Python, Java, Laravel, Vue, Git, Docker, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SES, SNS, EFS, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, security and networking for VPS environments)
  • Implementing backend and full stack solutions for startup and business clients, including web sites, web apps, backend flows and APIs
  • Integrating and working with a diverse set of third party platforms and APIs, including Stripe, Dwolla, Plaid, and Twilio
  • Working as a sole developer on client projects across the full development lifecycle, as well as working in collaborative team environments
  • Managing all aspects of a freelance software development business, including requirements gathering, project estimation, client communication, and dev-ops
Goldman Sachs Software Analyst
Sep 2008 – Mar 2015 · New York, New York

Backend Software Developer, Fixed Income Trading Systems, Full Time

  • Technologies: Java, Spring, “GS Lang” (proprietary scripting language), C#, DB2, Oracle, “GS DB” (proprietary OODB), SQL, Bloomberg API
  • Designed, implemented and enhanced server-to-desktop applications for real time market trading and reporting
  • Coordinated project planning, execution, testing and deployment across various teams including operations, trading, and firm-wide technology teams
  • Worked in a continuous deployment environment with an emphasis on both automated testing, code coverage, code review, documentation, and feature ownership
  • Gathered and addressed dynamic requirements and requests from the trading desk in a fast paced environment
Goldman Sachs Software Analyst
Jul 2008 – Jan 2011 · New York, New York
Casino City ITS Software Developer
Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 · Newton Centre, MA

Data Acquisition Team, 6-month Cooperative

  • Technologies: AutoIT scripting, Oracle DB, OCR library, regular expressions
  • Developed software to ingest data from online gaming platforms using AutoIt desktop automation, OCR, and regular expressions
  • Helped deploy and maintain production systems for the data acquisition team
  • Documented development work to acquaint new team members with the project and system
General Electric – Fanuc QA Engineer
Jun 2005 – Dec 2005 · Foxboro, MA

QA Engineer, Application Team, 6-month Cooperative

  • Served as the bridge between the engineering and quality assurance departments
  • Tested software, documented software bugs and helped in replicating and diagnosing them, enhanced test suites, and applied patches to the codebase in preparation for gold releases

Skills

Languages

PHP TypeScript JavaScript Python SQL Java

Frameworks & Libraries

Laravel FastAPI Node.js Express React Next.js Astro Java Spring

Tools & Platforms

Git Docker AWS

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB SQLite DB2 Relational Object Oriented Document Oriented

Caching / Searching

ElasticSearch Redis

AWS

EC2 Security Groups S3 SES SNS Elastic Beanstalk Load Balancers Route 53 (DNS)

Deployment

VPS setup SSH Backups