Senior Web Developer, Kingandmcgaw.com
Feb, 2001 - Present
King & McGaw is a UK-based ecommerce website which sells art prints and posters worldwide. A recent overhaul of platform to a service-oriented architecture will position the company to offer their services to retailers through a standard API while continuing to power avariety of in-house and white-label commercial websites.
Helped design & write a service-based system to power a multi-language/multi-currency website. The new platform is comprised of many simple cloud-based services using Ruby/Rails, Backbone.js, and Elasticsearch using Heroku.
Refactored and added automated testing to a Backbone app which is the core of the public-facing business. The entire business depends on this single web page working as best as it can.
Helped construct a continuous deployment workflow where new developers could confidently push code on their first day. This was quite a leap forward from the old system.