Garrett Murphey

Ruby & JavaScript Developer

Experience

A Perl turned PHP, PHP turned C#, C# turned Ruby, Ruby turned JavaScript developer.

Senior Engineer

Synacor, Inc., June 2012 - Present

Developed Windows 8 and Backbone applications, helped develop build procedures and components using Grunt, and wrote functional and unit tests.

Application Developer

Berklee College of Music, September 2011 - June 2012

Developed new and maintained existing systems for Berklee College of Music’s online education division using Ruby, Sinatra and Ruby on Rails. Architected and developed custom WYSIWYG system using Ruby on Rails 3 to create marketing promotions and materials recruiting new users. Developed internal application using Sinatra and jQuery to interact with Amazon’s S3 and Cloudfront Web Services to upload and manage marketing assets. Migrated automated emails from internal servers to Marketo using custom APIs and jobs running in Resque. Worked with system engineers to setup new testing and production environments.

Application Developer

Aurora Consulting Group, September 2007 - August 2011

Developed new and existing applications for Fisher-Price.com using a custom .NET MVC framework. Managed framework builds and the deployment process. Replaced dated, in-house JavaScript framework with the jQuery library. Contributed to the majority of IT decisions. Developed mobile website and researched mobile application development. Designed and developed routing application for QR barcodes to be used on product packaging. Enhanced Mattel intranet application using ASP and JavaScript.