Resumé - Topher Hunt

Summary

Experienced full-stack developer in Ruby on Rails and Elixir / Phoenix
Thorough, transparent planning process to ensure the product meets user needs
Focus on client & end-user needs in addition to technical details
Loyalty to my projects & clients, and their long-term success
Well-organized, highly maintainable code with minimal "cleverness"

Full-stack web development (favorite tools include: Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby, Rails, Git, Heroku, PostgreSQL, React, GraphQL, Apollo, LiveView)
Writing expressive, well-factored, un-clever code that's easy to understand, maintain, and grow
Building a clean, robust, low-maintenance test suite
Designing, querying, growing, optimizing complex relational databases
Communicating with colleagues and clients thoroughly, professionally, and proactively
Staying centered on end-user needs throughout the process of planning, building, delivering, and maintaining the application
Finding ways to make elegant use of existing tools, rather than rushing to integrate new ones

Planning, blueprinting, prototyping, releasing, and maintaining an experimental research application
Courting clients, planning & budgeting projects, money stuff, legal stuff
It turns out the entrepreneurship world demands different skills than the freelance web development world. Go figure.

Tackled the fascinating problem of how to both 1) represent the current structure of an organization, and 2) represent proposed structural changes to the org structure, in a way that makes it easy to a) craft in a friendly "proposal builder" UI, b) detect conflicts between proposals, c) validate and execute, and d) summarize in human-readable terms after execution, even if the referenced records no longer exist.
Slack integrations (announcing proposals and collecting accept/reject responses; syncing an organization's roles to Slack usergroups; making and responding to requests to a role via Slack)
ActiveCampaign contact list sync with heavy caching layer to work around ActiveCampaign's highly-throttled api
Logic for importing organization data from other Holacracy support tools, validating, and transforming the data to fit our schema

Developed Excel VB scripts to generate colorful heatmaps etc. from raw rubric data, allowing dramatically faster research & analysis cycles
Maintained & troubleshot on-site computer issues, PHP website code, MySQL databases, and server hosting
Planned & developed web interfaces & database structures for taking assessments, managing the coding rubrics, processing student performances into result data, displaying reports, project setup & student management, and client billing & invoice management
Learned to value modern web development practices by working on a LAMP stack fully unsuited to the complexity of the app being built on it

Receiving and processing requests using our horrid old ticketing system
Computer diagnostics, cleaning, and hardware repair
New workstation setup and deployment
Writing and organizing documentation for use by the entire college; teaching others how to write in the wiki

Lived and worked in a rural Nicaraguan community
Taught daily English & computer classes to 40 students from preschool to 6th grade
Designed multi-year curricula using research on ESL teaching techniques
Hand-hacked ten donated laptops to display interface in Spanish instead of English (this was before Windows supported changing the OS language)
Learned some hard lessons about cross-cultural communication, developmental psychology, poverty, and NGO politics