PETER H. BOLING

San Francisco Bay Area homepage: http://railsbling.com

(765) 407-3138 email: peter.boling@gmail.com

Solution Architect, Automation Evangelist, Ruby Expert and Certified Barista

Experienced system architect, team leader, mentor, rubyist, and full stack web application programmer since 2004; previously linux system administrator.

Author and maintainer of many popular open source libraries.

I excel at data analysis, task automation, testing, style guides, best practices, API design, benchmarking, and Domain Driven Design.

Led major PHP to Rails conversions @ aSmallWorld (2008/9) and BibleGateway (2010).

Created solutions for finance, insurance, healthcare, social networking, government, information technology, B2B, fashion, gaming, publishing, and e-commerce sectors.

Dedicated to moving science forward and improving the condition of life generally by automation and process improvement.

Tech Leadership & Management

Technical Advisor, at Karuna Health; Architecture, mentoring, planning; 2018 - present

Project Lead, oauth2 ruby gem; 2017 - present

Web Team Lead, at Invoice2go; I managed six developers, and 1 QA Engineer; 2016 - 2017

Automation Team Lead, at Invoice2go; I managed one developer, and interfaced with managers of all other teams; 2016 - 2017

Project Lead, dynamoid ruby gem; 2016 - present

CTO of Acquaintable, and co-founder; I managed a team of five including designers, frontend, and backend engineers; Acquired, 2012 - 2013

Project Lead, flag_shih_tzu ruby gem; 2012 - present

First Employee & Lead Engineer at BloombergBlack; Interviewed, hired, then mentored team of fifteen engineers; 2010 to 2012

Team Lead at Sagebit; Managed and mentored five recent graduate programmers; 2008-2009

Skills

App: Ruby, Rails, RSpec, React, ES2016, Cypress, Webpacker, JSONapi, Protobuf

Database: PostgreSQL, Dynamo, Neo4j, ES, Mongo, Redis, MySQL, Oracle, Memcached

Servers: Puma, nginx, unicorn, passenger, mongrel, lighttpd, mod_ruby

System: Bash, monitoring, scheduling, backup, security, debian packaging

Project: Jira, Jenkins, Github, Pivotal, and Bitbucket Administration

Recent projects

Technical Advisor

Stack - Rails 5.2, Ruby 2.5=>2.6, RSpec, PostgreSQL, SQS, Protobuf, S3, ES, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, Aptible, Github

Karuna Health November 2018 - Present

https://www.meetkaruna.com/

Advising on technical, architectural, and hiring issues

Solution Architect

Stack - Rails 5.2, Ruby 2.6, RSpec, PostgreSQL, S3, ES, Redis, Kafka, Sidekiq, Github

MINDBODY, Inc November 2019 - February 2020

https://www.mindbodyonline.com/

Architecture design for new APIs, interfaces, data storage
Process design for software development lifecycle
SME for services utilized by all teams, and projects within Marketing Products

Senior Staff Architect (6 month contract, extended to 12 months)

Stack - Rails 5.2, Ruby 2.4=>2.6, React v16, RSpec, PostgreSQL, S3, ES, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, Github

Gainbridge.life, Relay Rewards, Delaware Life, Group1001 November 2018 - November 2019

https://gainbridge.life, https://www.group1001.com

Develop Group1001 corporate homepage (Rails & Contentful) https://www.group1001.com
Design and implement all analytics solutions and integrations for https://gainbridge.life
Developing front end (React v16 & Redux) on https://gainbridge.life
Built E2E specs in Cypress for https://gainbridge.life
Full stack support of https://relayrewards.com/ (will probably be shut down soon)

Implementation of all new features
Built new redesigned landing page with React Hooks (never released)

JIRA administration & process development

Principal Systems Architect

Stack - Rails 4.2, Ruby 2.0=>2.3, RSpec, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, ES, Mongo, Redis, Memcached, Resque, DigitalOcean, Heroku, DataDog, Cloudwatch, NewRelic, Salesforce, Jira, Bitbucket, Ubuntu

Intricately May 2016 - November 2018

http://www.intricately.com

Created time-series data collection & analytics; Generates events to track change on internet
Scaling systems and creating devops tools to better utilize infrastructure
Advanced math to transform non-scalar data from AWS Alexa into a scalar digest
Monitor, log, benchmark, and automate the internet monitoring robots
Build data pipelines for enterprise customers exposing the internet sliced in different ways

Principal Systems Architect

Stack - Rails 4.2=>5.2, Ruby 2.3=>2.5, RSpec, PostgreSQL, Jira, Ubuntu, OPC DA integrations.

Bolt Threads Sep 2017 - May 2018

https://boltthreads.com/

Maintenance of a legacy, custom, in-house built, Lab Information Management System.
Analysis of potential replacement third party LIMS systems.
Interviewed candidates for Software Engineering leadership team (VP, Director, Sys Admins)
Integration of Windows-based OPC DA services with LIMS via data sampling mechanisms
Translate garment designs to instrumentation for a Stoll industrial knitting machine
Primary JIRA administrator for all company projects
Participated in Leadership Fundamentals training
Left when the in-house LIMS system was replaced with off-the-shelf software.

Principal Engineer

Automation Team Lead

Web Team Lead

Stack - Rails 4.2, Ruby 2.3, RSpec, AngularJS 1.4, PostgreSQL, S3, ElasticSearch, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, CircleCI, Jenkins, Github Enterprise, ZenDesk, NewRelic

Invoice2Go Jan 2016 - Feb 2017

http://www.invoice2go.com

Lead the web team in developing a revamped web app at https://web.invoice.2go.com/
Laid the groundwork for new service architecture, implementation and continuous integration
Designing JIRA process, workflows and screens, and integration with ZenDesk
Designing and implementing git branching strategy and supporting toolchain
Implementing sandboxed dev env and tiered deployed environments
Design and implement feature flags allowing synchronized feature release across clients
Engineering Leadership role in Jakarta office

Senior Engineer

Stack - Rails 3.2, Ruby 2.0=>2.1, RSpec, React, EmberCLI, Haml, Slim, SASS, PostgreSQL, S3, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, TravisCI, Github, Salesforce, NewRelic, Heroku

Trumaker & Co Apr 2014 - Mar 2016

http://www.trumaker.com

Rebuilding architecture of entire tech stack
Extracting front-end parts to ember-cli and react thin clients
Building structured, authenticated, performant APIs, utilizing versioning and caching
Modernizing versions of Ruby, Rails, and many critical gems
Implementing backend to support launches of new product lines (blazers, ties, belts, pants, sweaters, tees, etc), fulfillment processes, factories, and shipping methods
Designed and created a fully spec’d 12-state Lead CRM tool
Integrated Salesforce with internal Lead CRM via my celluloid-io-pg-listener gem
Built a commissioned sales attribution framework that supports point-in-time history
Fixed the factory pattern and rewrote the spec suite, adding thousands of additional tests
Setup new deployed environments, created Thor deployment tool for automation of the many deployment related sub-tasks

Senior Staff Architect, Services (9 month contract, extended)

Stack - Ruby 1.8=>2.1, CGI, FastCGI, Mail gem, RSpec, Oracle 11g, rbenv, bash, daemons, RedHat linux

Church Pension Group Aug 2013 – Oct 2014

http://cpg.org (among others)

Forensic analysis of 5 year old ruby service layer
Upgrade from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.0, then 2.1
Created ruby service APIs to support many varied clients, & regression test suite
Implement account lock and token expiry security measures & automated enforcement
Upgrade daemon infrastructure and trading systems, improve software stack / `make` system
10x performance enhancement of internal services: former 20 req/s is now at least 200 req/s when the bottleneck changes to external resources.

Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer

Stack - Rails 3.2, JRuby 1.7, Ruby 1.9=>2.0, RSpec, RequireJS, BackboneJS, Foundation, Slim, SASS, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, S3, Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq, Unicorn, Puma, TravisCI, Github, Librato Metrics, NewRelic, Heroku

Acquaintable.com – Socially curated dating through FoF Jun 2012 – Aug 2013

Acquired by LikeBright, now Reveal (Microsoft Ventures backed)

Built the entire site & made all tech decisions
Advised on all product and design decisions
Created matching engine with Neo4j + PostgreSQL data analysis algorithms
Mobile first, responsive design, with intuitive, touch-enabled mobile interface
Designed to provide an immediate experience to each new user
One page app design, in preparation for iPhone app
UX tool-chain: backbone-marionette, handlebars, RequireJS, slim, SASS, foundation
Accepted into Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator Winter 2013 class (ERA - NYC)
Fully automated and self-correcting, no intervention required for 4 months.
Successful exit via acquisition!

Senior Rubyist & Lead Developer

Stack - Rails 2.3, 3.0, 3.1 & 3.2, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, Grape, RSpec, RequireJS, Foundation, Slim, SASS, SOAP, Unicorn, Puma, Memcached, TeamCity, Git

Bloomberg Black – now dissolved Aug 2010 – Nov 2012

1st Employee, and lead developer of Bloomberg Black, a personal wealth management startup
Interviewed and built a team of 15 engineers
I built internal gems:

VCR extensions: improved automated management / recording of soap interactions allows for isolated development, recorded sessions reduce dependency on service tier
Javascript: flyout menus, internally tabbed ajax pages, scrollspy, breadcrumbs
Spec suite with thousands of tests to enforce style guide, validate ruby namespace against collisions

SOAP services interface, generators for SOAP models and test fixtures; created version dependency resolution between Ruby layer and Java services
Rack middleware for fast custom logging => Splunk, 10ms per request improvement
Designed project structure: ajax widgets built out of reusable RequireJS modules, cells for componentized features, presenters for single instance variable, and logic free views
Spec infrastructure: created custom rspec matchers, acceptance tests, JS unit tests
CMS presentation code for the dynamic content on the site with all content available via static route or ajax widgets
Built the CMS backend for the content entry in the 100% javascript Rapid IDE
Maintained platform interoperability – Windows & RedHat & MacOS

Team Lead, Senior Engineer (contract)

Stack - Rails 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, Makandra Rails LTS, Ruby 1.8=>2.2, RSpec, Haml, CSS, MySQL, Memcached, Mongrel, Unicorn, TravisCI, Github, Redmine, NewRelic

Timeperks.com – Order meals online from favorite local restaurants Sep 2008 – Aug 2014

Mentored junior developers, and reviewed code
Built some of the more complex parts of the system, e.g. CX ghosting/masquerade tool
Created data reporting features, utilizes my csv_pirate gem.
Did all original, three-way, marketplace payment integration with Amazon FPS, and became maintainer of remit gem

Partner & Lead Developer (Ruby on Rails)

Stack - Rails 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, RSpec, Erb, Haml, CSS, jQuery, MySQL, Mongrel, Unicorn, Memcached, Github, Redmine, Debian, Ubuntu

Sagebit, LLC - now dissolved Jun 2007 – Dec 2011

Developed a Ruby on Rails based media storage and retrieval engine
Development, testing, deployment, and refactoring internal projects, including:

CartaBuzz – Find things to do near you (many third party APIs)
MonkeyStub – Get tickets to events fast (many third party APIs)
YetiMail – Snopes for Chain Letters / Spam / Phishing (web scraping; a fuzzy phrase analysis engine; AI)

Trained 5 new hires in Ruby, Rails, REST, and stateless programming
Likewise with all Rails-based client projects, including: social networks, nonprofits, data warehousing, and commercial sites
Biggest contract was with aSmallWorld, http://asmallworld.com:

Led team of 10 developers converting old PHP site to Rails
Design & setup of load balanced 32 server production stack
Wrote forums, photo sharing, friend network presentation engine
Designed polymorphic basis for CMS in the new site
Moved millions of rows of data from the legacy tables to new rails friendly table designs and data models, and optimized SQL queries, and code structure for negligible downtime during PHP -> Rails migration
Optimized to handle 2MM uniques per month, and 300K page views per day
Designed and implemented page and user tracking
Built advertising minisite engine for Estee Lauder and Mercedes-Mclaren campaigns

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (6 month contract, extended)

Stack - Rails 2.3, Ruby 1.9, RSpec, Memcached, EPub

Zondervan (Harper-Collins) Dec 2009 – Jul 2010

http://BibleGateway.com

Developed Google-inspired search engine for POC build of BibleGateway.com

http://github.com/pboling/awesome_search

Created dynamic tools used to import hundreds of publications into the system:

improve quality of data, metadata, and data linkages
incrementally index publications with Solr / Sunspot

Implemented advanced exception handling and reporting
Developed parser to transform raw text into HTML decorated with footnotes and many publishing formatting requirements

Founder & System Architect

Stack: Rails 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, Redmine, DelayedJob, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, Debian, Ubuntu, Bash

9thBit, LLC (Rails Consulting) Mar 2007 – Jul 2010

Built a full-featured credit union web application (offline)

Integrations with several payment gateways and money transfer services
Clients could transfer money from other institutions
Clients could make online withdrawals to other institutions
Advanced fraud detection and prevention
Admin backend systems for credit union staff to use
Interest calculation; Nightly audits and reconciliation on accounts
Document handling; Account statements, and ledgers
Notification system and support system, with knowledge base
All devops work, security hardening, server provisioning, backups, etc
$10 million+ in deposits and wire transfers
Thousands of accounts and users supported

Built a letter writing, printing, and mailing service (offline)

Physical letters as a service; Sent to government officials, local, state, national
Geolocates users to determine the correct legislators

Senior Developer, System Admin, Ruby on Rails (contract)

Stack - Rails 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3, Ruby 1.8=>1.9, RSpec, Memcached

Neighborino, LLC Aug 2008 – Aug 2010

http://www.neighborino.com/ & http://demo.neighborino.com/

Photo sharing features, form handling, messaging, advertising services, calendaring.
Created a mailer daemon system to fix timeouts on the website when sending emails.

Systems Analyst / Developer (Ruby on Rails, XSL, C#, Shell)

Stack - Rails 1.1 & 1.2, Ruby 1.8, Oracle 8i, 9i & 10g, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, Redhat Linux, Windows IIS, XML, XSLT, Google Search Appliance

Legislative Services Agency (LSA) Apr 2006 – June 2007

http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/irtoc.htm

Built Indiana Register website with Tomcat, Cocoon, and Google Mini
Created Indiana General Assembly's internal call center application running the House, Senate, and LSA call centers.

One of the first in the world to run Rails on Windows Server 2003; mongrel_cluster & Oracle 10g backend, IIS6 frontend; Worked directly with Microsoft’s IIS team
AJAX address based lookup of senate and house districts for constituents, with issue tracking, and daily summary email to legislators

Ruby on Rails Developer & Partner

Stack: Rails 0.14, 1.0, 1.1 & 1.2, Ruby 1.8, Nginx, Mongrel Cluster, Lighttpd, MySQL, Memcached, Redmine, jQuery, AJAX, CSS, Debian, Ubuntu, Bash

PanEther, LLC (Rails Consulting) Dec 2005 – Mar 2007

Built a fantasy football website for a client
Built a credit union web application, and administrative tools, for a client
Built a government advocacy web application for a client

Linux System Administrator & Developer (Rails, PHP, Java, Perl, Scheme, Shell)

Stack: Rails 0.10, 0.11, 0.12, 0.13, 0.14, 1.0 & 1.1, Ruby 1.8, Mongrel, MySQL, Memcached, Bugzilla, Bash

Optivel, Inc Dec 2004 – April 2006

Primary developer on first-ever enterprise-grade, Rails-based, ticketing system
Built a time tracking app in Rails; an “AirBnB for Airplanes” in PhP
Managed a Debian apt repository mirror
Built and maintained internal debian packages handling configuration synchronization, key rotation, and automated backups.

Open source activism - Millions of RubyGem downloads since 2009

http://github.com/pboling http://rubygems.org/profiles/pboling

http://github-awards.com/users/search?login=pboling https://coderwall.com/pboling

Some gems I hack on

oauth2 – A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol: Project Lead & Maintainer since Dec 2017

https://github.com/oauth-xx/oauth2

debug_logging – Unobtrusive debug logging for Ruby without the litter: Author, Mar 2017

https://github.com/pboling/debug_logging

dynamoid – AWS DynamoDB ORM for Ruby: Maintainer since May 2016

https://github.com/Dynamoid/Dynamoid

gem_bench – static gemfile analysis: Author, Apr 2013

https://github.com/pboling/gem_bench

flag_shih_tzu – Bitfields for ActiveRecord: Maintainer since Nov 2012

https://github.com/pboling/flag_shih_tzu

sanitize_email – Tools for testing email; Safety belt for using production data: Author Oct 2008

https://github.com/pboling/sanitize_email

And many more... http://rubygems.org/profiles/pboling

Humanitarian volunteer work

Since 2013 I have been helping refugees from Ivory Coast and Liberian civil wars re-establish themselves. Initially I rent apartments for refugees, purchase land, build cinder block homes, help them repatriate, find gainful employment, and build sufficiency by farming and husbandry. Refugees who cannot repatriate I help relocate to permanent new lives through UN programs, mostly to Canada and Australia. November 2015 my efforts became a registered Liberian NGO called Hope For Tomorrow. Each year I directly assist hundreds of refugees to repatriate or relocate.

Co-founder of the WordTree Foundation, http://blog.wordtree.org. Working on algorithms to enable scientific textual analysis (e.g. n-gram) of literary works to shed light on provenance, and external influence, especially for works written prior to the modern age, which will shed light on how human thought has evolved. All code is open source: http://github.com/wordtreefoundation

I contribute on an ongoing basis to the following charities and organizations:

United Way Africa Heartwood Project Hope For Tomorrow, Liberia

Children International Kiva.org Heifer International

KQED Pacifica Foundation National Wildlife Federation

Human Language Fluency

English (native) Spanish (fluent) Portuguese (fluent)

Indonesian (conversational)

Honors

Dean’s Honor List for College of Sciences and Humanities, Ball State University,

Spring ’98 and Spring ’99 (Computer Science)

Indiana Core 40 Honors Diploma, Muncie Central High School

Eagle Scout* - Boy Scouts of America

(*As a minor; before I knew of the discriminatory nature of the organization)

Education

Ball State University, CS*, Science & Humanities, Muncie, IN 1997 – 1999

Purdue University, MIS*, Science & Eng. Tech., Lafayette, IN 2002 – 2004

Ball State University, CS*, Science & Humanities, Muncie, IN 2004 – 2005

Purdue University, CIT*, Engineering Technology, Indpls, IN 2005 – 2007

* Worked full-time, no debt, through college; flat-top roofer, sys-admin, web developer. I am eight classes short of a degree, and I have no intention of completing it.

Certifications

Barista, Certified & Licensed in Australia by CBD College, Sydney, RTO# 91399

* SITHFAB005 - Prepare and serve espresso coffee

* SITXFSA001 - Use hygienic practices for food safety