Cameron Crockett

Email: resume [at] crktt.com

Website: https://cameron.crockettonline.com

GitHub Projects: https://github.com/ccrockett

Skills Profile: Cameron Crockett Profile

Summary:

Self-driven engineering leader with over 20 years of full software development life cycle experience, including 9 years leading teams, capable of delivering software applications that meet your users' needs

Skills (Tools & Technologies):

Ruby • Python • C# • Java • tcl
Ruby on Rails • Node.js • Stimulus JS • React JS • Ember JS
HTML • JavaScript • CSS • Sass
ReST API • SOAP • OpenID • oAuth2
Postgres • ElasticSearch • Redis
Cloud services (Digital Ocean, AWS) • Docker • Kubernetes
RSpec • Cypress • Playwright
Github • Gitlab • CI/CD

Professional Experience:

Oversaw engineering team development from recruitment through career progression, delivering personalized mentorship and technical expertise for all team members
Provide constructive technical feedback to other engineers through our GitHub code review process and pair programming
Assumed responsibility for the existing architecture, team, and leadership vision after both the director of product and engineering departed at a critical time. Despite these challenges, successfully led the team to a beta launch of a working app in February 2023
Reduced external cloud dependencies by 50% while enhancing infrastructure security through WireGuard VPN implementation for critical systems
Continue to maintain a 99% uptime on services with a very lean DevOps team
Partner with the product and design team to break down requested user features into discrete engineering tasks for implementation
Engaged with Senior engineers to establish best practices and adopt latest Rails 8 ecosystem using StimulusJS and Turbo 8 techniques (Drive, Frames and Streams)
Led technical implementation of the skill profile comparison feature using OpenAI, with word embeddings and cosine distance of vectors
Spearheaded implementation to train customized language models using python, FastAPI and the spaCy framework
Led the complete migration of all data and customers from legacy to new platform (August 2024), successfully decommissioning the legacy system
Worked with the HR team to build engineering career ladders and compensation bands to support a twofold increase in growth of our remote engineering team
Collaborate with teams across TSTC to spearhead initiatives that enhance business processes and transparency in skills-based outcomes

Recruit, mentor and provide support in the continued growth of junior engineers in Ruby on Rails
Participate in screening and technical interviews of prospective engineering candidates
Mentor and provide constructive feedback to other engineers through the code review process and pair programming
Contribute to streamlining and securing engineering team processes as well as improving the on-boarding process (docker, linting, etc)
Break down and architect quality reusable components in JavaScript/HTML utilizing the Ember JS framework
Develop new Web API functionality and endpoints in Ruby on Rails backend for new product features
Write complex active record queries and utilize PostgreSQL views for joining complex data tables
Ensure quality bug fixes by writing QUnit and RSpec tests to reduce future re-occurence of bugs
Refactored reports and skills data api to provide consistent app data while providing 15x performance boost
Implemented a secure Auth0 integration and transition in Ruby on Rails/Ember JS to replace existing app on-boarding process

Direct & manage a remote engineering team at different experience levels in product and feature development
Produce, control & communicate the engineering roadmap to customers, investors and senior management
Establish streamlined processes and methods to preserve a high level of productivity, quality, and reliability for the team
Collaborate with other teams to ensure customer success in software product deployment
Drive the creation of new processes and tools to maintain engineering team satisfaction and productivity
Recruit, mentor and grow both the engineering team and QA team from the ground up
Track customer impact of new features on a regular basis and rely on data to make informed decisions about possible improvements
Provide mentorship of junior engineers and on-boarding of new engineers (both QA and Development)
Architect RESTful API backend solution using C# .NET WebAPI, MS SQL Server database and AngularJS front-end
Participate in the full development lifecycle of our web based solution for issuing plastic cards, from initial design phase to current deployments in cloud and on-premise
Automate cross platform software release utilizing GitLab CI/CD server and custom ruby scripts
Developed Omniauth-Keycloak ruby gem for integrating Keycloak authorization server (Open Source on GitHub)
Created internal web application using Ruby on Rails to accurately generate billing reports based on utilization of APIs

Designed application using Drop Wizard library to sync data between third party asset management system and OTMM 10.5
Developed a Java application to sync data from third party asset management system to OTMM 10.5 using OTMM’s bulk import tool
Provided support and examples to third party vendors to create assets, update assets and create sessions using OpenText’s REST API
Developed a Java application for proof of concept to create jobs, upload assets and return asset file path using OpenText’s REST API

Maintain Ruby Lane's highly available websites which includes fixing bugs in TCL, debugging network issues and creating new features
Designed and developed javascript image uploader to allow customers to directly upload images to Amazon S3
Designed and developed an image processor backend system using Amazon SQS for a highly available and scalable system to process customer uploaded images
Developed internal tools using Grunt JS for running tests, reloading modules and building css files using LESS
Developed oAuth2 and Google content API - shopping module for legacy system
Executed complete development life cycle for new REST API in Ruby on Rails for use with mobile applications
Implemented Capistrano deployment for Ruby Lane web application, replacing an old legacy deployment
Migrated javascript code to use require.js library resulting in a 20% speed increase in rubylane.com loading time
Perform release engineer duties including code freezes, testing and releasing code to production
Mentor and perform on boarding process for new hires including technical interviews for new candidates
Wrote ruby scripts to help migrate data and backup data from legacy IBM database to MySQL

Assisted customers with setting up and customizing IBT's enterprise banking software
Performed analysis on embedded T-SQL command performance and refactoring them to make them up to 5 times faster
Developed a C# module to provide security integration between Windows Active Directory and IBT's software
Created a WPF application for analyzing and printing statements
Tested, debugged and wrote perl script for image upload via SFTP on embedded linux project

Worked on a large team to assist customers with troubleshooting and debugging Lotus Domino problems
Created customer problem reports and collaborate with development team to fix critical bugs in the software
Wrote and published technical documentation on Lotus Domino
Worked closely with other support teams to assist customers with problems in other functional areas
Created test scripts and possible minor bug fixes using LotusScript

Assisted customers with resolutions to hardware & software problems
Provided network, database and software solutions to financial institutions
Performed testing and root cause analysis of problems in software
Integrated Microsoft SQL Server with proprietary financial software
Developed a web based customer tracking and ticketing system in PHP with a MySQL backend

Performed software requirements analysis
Created GUI based software in C# using .NET framework to replace the current DOS based software
Built MS Windows DLLs in C to access device print drivers
Connected to a variety of database types using ODBC drivers and XML configuration files

Fixed critical bugs and added new features to client/server software using Visual Basic
Created ActiveX DLLs in Visual Basic to allow network connections from third party applications
Programmed new software for financial hardware using C and assembly language
Worked with a team of programmers to develop ATM monitoring software using C# .NET 2.0

Education:

The University of Texas at Arlington, August 2008

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering - Minor in Mathematics