Mike Hall

Re-launched Coderwall as an open-source project and led the community development efforts.

• Relaunched Coderwall as an open-source project and guided a diverse contributor community.
• Replaced Resque with Sidekiq to reduce background job cost on Heroku.
• Replaced MongoDB with Postgres to simplify queries, reduce costs, and improve maintainability.
• Improved Elasticsearch queries and upgraded the service to stabilize search performance and relevance.

Skills: AWS S3, Airbrake, Backbone.js, Bash, CSS, ElasticSearch, Git, GitHub, GitHub API, XHTML, Heroku, JRuby, JavaScript, MongoDB, Packer, PostgreSQL, Puma, RSpec, Redis, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sass, Sidekiq, Stripe, Vagrant, Vim, Z shell (Zsh), jQuery