Resume

of Paul Vudmaska

• Email : paul@vudmaska.com
• Phone: 210-422-7745
• Wiki:

Developer

Full stack, Ruby on Rails developer (12+ years experience) with other complimentary design and technology skills.

Why me?

My best asset is my interest. I keep up with web development trends (both front and back) because I love it.

• I seek value - "how is this technology going to help me create value for myself and others?"
• Finding the right tool for the job used to be the hardest part. Now, choosing, the right tool is hardest because of paradox of choice.
• I've got 20 years of experience choosing and implementing the right tools for the job.

May 1997

Education

• Bachelor of Business Administration
• Information Systems
• UTSA, San Antonio, Texas

Skills

Server

• Rails
• Many ruby gems Gemfile
• Mysql / Postgres
• Managed production servers on Digital Ocean and Linode for more than 10 years
  • Ubuntu
  • Passenger
  • Nginx
  • SSH / Keys
  • Capistrano
  • SSL certs

Client

• HTML
• CSS
  • Bootstrap
  • Grid / Flex
• Javascript
  • jQuery
  • jQuery Mobile
  • Vue
  • Svelte
• Static site generators
  • Middleman
  • Vue Press

Experience

Jan 2007 to Present

MBLZ

• Full stack development of CRM for small business.
• Manages customer's clients, phones, invoices and more
  • Rails (started with 2, currently on 4+)
    • Nginx, Passenger, Mysql
  • Twilio
    • Scriptable phone number
    • Call Routing
    • Jquery Mobile
    • UI / Javascript
• I've worked for MBLZ on a project basis over the last few years.
  • Some of the projects include:
  • Added product invoices and inventory
  • Updating all sites to use SSL (Let's Encrypt)
  • Moved the CMS portion out of Rails and into a static site generator
    • Multi-site Middleman - all the sites use one instance, each containing their own data and content - making maintenance (including adding sites) very efficient, performant and cost effective
    • Bootstrap (3&4 - the upgrade to 4 was a breeze)

2010-2015

Rackspace

Senior developer working on internal apps that managed contracts.

• Using their API, interfaced with Salesforce
• Encrypted documents at rest
• Implemented workflows that streamlined the sales/contract process

Before 2010

Others

• Navy (3 years). Honorably discharged. Attained rank of E6 in short enlistment.
  • Worked on the flight deck of an air craft carrier (Saratoga)
  • Visited the Mediterranean
• USAA
  • Tech lead
  • Intranet apps
  • ASP - Jscript on the server