Carson R. Cole

Principal engineer and primary architect for this stage one company focused on boat charter auctions. Led MVP design and development, working with developers and other stakeholders in determining initial features, supporting both charter providers as well as charterers, and including an auction and boat management system. System original developed on Heroku, however I managed the migration to Digital Ocean. Built on a Ruby on Rails stack.

Principal engineer for architecting cross-company web applications. Implemented multiple systems in record time, including a billing accounting and customer support system, a system monitoring solution, a review scraping service and an API documentation hosting solution. Was integral to the rollout of a major price increase and new Plans for customers at Grade.us in 2019, by developing a new fee management that allowed for implementing varied customer fee structures in stages. Major accomplishment was proposing, designing, and implementing an extraction of the scraping component of the Grade.us application into a micro- service, significantly dropping system loads and improving customer web response times. Responsible for the design, engineering and operation of a product review monitoring SASS application.

Re-engineered this single-tenant SaaS Ruby on Rails application to a multi- tenant application with fully-automated CI on AWS, reducing cloud costs by 85%, and improving efficiency and customer satisfaction due to a unified app and code base. Developed and implemented a more secure application within a VPC architecture and also eliminated extensive use of 3rd party services that allowed for security vulnerabilities. Reconfigured databases to be more redundant, secure, and allow for point-in-time recovery.

Senior engineer supporting white labeled SaaS health insurance Ruby on Rails applications, completing feature design and development work. Led the design and development of moving from a single- to a multi-tenant application.

Founded and principal-engineered this robo-advisor investment management firm, backed by a 19 micro-services- application infrastructure. Managed global team of 10 engineers. Designed patent-pending investment decision- making engine, trading and accounting applications, working in coordination to manage and transact client accounts individually and uniquely. Successfully migrated complete multiple-application architecture from Amazon AWS to Digital Ocean in less than 30 days with zero downtime and customer impact, by launching new applications, migrating data, then updating DNS records.

Founded this Singapore-based U.S. mail-forwarding company. Responsible for engineering the main application, utilized by both customers and well as freight forwarders. The application was built with Ruby on Rails.