George Masgras

Sr Software Engineer with 10+ years of professional programming experience.
Particularly interested in developing distributed systems and web applications with Go, Ruby and Linux

gmasgras@gmail.com Santa Monica
www.linkedin.com/in/masgras CA United States

Education

2005-2009 : B.S. Information Technology; Oakland University, MI

Technical Skills

ruby, go, javascript, linux, docker, arduino

Experience

Sr. Software Developer - Carbon Five March 2014 - April 2016
ruby-on-rails, docker, ansible, dokku, node.js, aws, heroku

Delivered production cluster infrastructure on EC2 using Consul, Docker, Chef, Jenkins
Set up a HIPAA and PHI compliant infrastructure with CI/CD hosted on AWS Beanstalk
Implemented infrastructure monitoring & alerting based on Prometheus/Grafana/cAdvisor
Worked on Rails/React/Backbone client projects such as biotech data access portals, visual book builder and artist management

Sr. Software Developer - NetDotSolutions 2013
ruby, ruby-on-rails, chef, puppet, openvz, redis, javascript, capistrano

Migrated the town-hall video conferencing site vokle.com from Engine Yard onto the company's private cloud (Linux, OpenVZ) with only minutes of downtime
Delivered a Rails application for tracking multi-channel loyalty rewards
Set up CI/CD infrastructure for Rails applications with Puppet and Capistrano
Ported infrastructure recipes/manifests from Chef to Puppet
Developed Ruby libraries providing a consistent API for accessing loyalty contributions from 3rd parties

Sr. Software Developer - Machinima 2012 - 2013
ruby, padrino, mysql, amazon-sqs, javascript

Developed a distributed push-notification delivery system for iOS and Android client devices on Amazon SQS/EC2
In charge with maintaining a suite of Rails applications used to generate invoicing
Improved application run time characteristics by identifying bottlenecks through measuring tools (KCachegrind)

Software Developer - Vokle, Inc. July 2012 - October 2012
ruby, ruby-on-rails, adobe-media-server, wowza, eventmachine, javascript, capistrano, chef, engineyard

Implemented payments through Stripe.com and account customization features for www.vokle.com
Responsible with scaling and managing the video serving infrastructure during the live 2012 Stand Up To Cancer telethon broadcast on national TV channels
Hardened EngineYard server infrastructure and streamlined deployments through Chef recipes

Software Developer - GraphEffect May 2011 - June 2012
php, ruby, javascript

Delivered a parallel "ventilator-sink" job processing system build with ZeroMQ and PHP
Implemented ad monitoring and bid re-adjustment algorithms resulting in optimal spend and reach
Developed asynchronous workers to publish ads and pull statistics through various Facebook APIs
Developed project management and code generation tools for Rails applications

Web Developer - magnify360 March 2010 - November 2010
javascript, jquery, mysql, php, shell , python

Rewrote the Connector system responsible for syncing incoming leads to third party CRM systems such as SugarCRM, QuickBase, Salesforce
Rewrote parts of the DB schema and tweaked SQL queries in a major overhaul of the database
Delivered a JavaScript solution for tracking mouse clicks on websites and presenting the data via heat-maps

PHP Developer - Design by Satori June 2009 - March 2010
php, zend-framework, debian, apache, jquery

Delivered CRM and invoicing applications in popular PHP frameworks (Zend, symfony, cakePHP)
Maintained various existing PHP applications for regional corporate clients.
Responsible for the company's site infrastructure and back-end

Network Engineer/Software Developer/Owner - GateVox Communications January 2007 - May 2009
asterisk, sip, opensips, php, java, mysql, linux, iptables, openvpn, polycom, voip

Developed Java applications for VoIP customers ranging from access-code dialing to call-back and voicemail-email services
Developed PHP/MySQL backed intranet application used for billing customers and tracking company finances
Implemented scripts for automating provisioning of VoIP phones
Administered a redundant, High Availability Asterisk/SIP + (SER) cluster
Responsible with business development and hiring

System/Network Administrator - Euro-Connect April 2005 - July 2006
php, mysql, voip, linux, sip, Cisco, asterisk, Sysmaster

Built and maintained HA Linux VoIP servers delivering toll-quality VoIP traffic through SIP/H.323 gateways
Developed a CRM-type intranet application in PHP and MySQL in order to simplify managing customers, invoices and the company's internal VoIP PBX and network .
In charge with constantly adding functionality to the company's PHP-based reporting application used to get snapshots of the company's performance or taxes-related reports.
Developed a bill payment interface for online customer access, deployed VoIP gateways for wholesale and retail domestic/international traffic.
Hardened VoIP network improving latency and scaling up interconnecting with worldwide VoIP providers

IT/Network Administrator - Realtime Technologies March 2004 - April 2005
linux, php, cisco

Developed OS scripts for backing up a mix of Microsoft + Linux servers
Managed workstations, responsible with keeping the systems virus-free and implementing a local repository of Windows updates for pushing new patches to workstations
Worked on various hardware projects involving soldering and building small integrated systems
Hardened security for the internal servers, implemented a "honey-pot" system based on SNORT
Implemented a "single sign-on" procedure on the company network by using a shared LDAP back-end between servers running Windows 2003 and Linux RedHat

Systems Analyst/Administrator - SONIX4U December 2002 - March 2004
php, linux, mysql, ms-access

Functioned as a system administrator in the company's IT department
Created several MS Access databases for use as stand-alone internal applications
Developed PHP code for the company's internal database and the company's public website
Responsible for the design and development of an e-commerce site with shopping cart and order processing used for selling foreign movies on DVD
Developed a streamlined process for trans-coding foreign movies to and from various video formats (NTSC
Worked as a customer service representative in the company's long distance department

Tools

Editor:                 Emacs /  Vim
SCM:                    Git
OS:                     Arch Linux

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