Dan Barber

Experience

Imagine Learning (formerly Learnzillion)

Senior Developer: Aug 2021—Present

• Developed and deployed a new annotation feature for lesson plans. Implemented a focused selection of drawing tools to teachers to use to annotate lessons. This also uses websockets to broadcast annotations to students.

• Created a self service interface for curriculum team members to be able to download standards for lesson plans.

• Created an interface for managing scheduled user imports and exports to and from an external SFTP service.

Buoy Software

Senior Developer: Feb 2021—Jun 2021

• Worked with the product team to triage bugs and scope new features for software built to run the Parachute blood plasma donation centers.

• Created a new feature for the Parachute management app that consolidates all the details of a single donation onto one page. The app uses a Ruby on Rails GraphQL API and a React front-end.

• Created a new sign up flow and home screen for the React Native mobile app.

thoughtbot (formerly New Bamboo)

Senior Developer: Nov 2012—Jan 2021

During my time at thoughtbot I worked on a large number of projects directly with clients. Here are some highlights from the projects I worked on:

• Worked with an external designer to design and build a new website for New Bamboo.

• Built a CMS and subscription system for a marketing intelligence firm using Ruby on Rails and ElasticSearch.

• Built a form system for an organisation that funds research in developing countries using a Ruby on Rails back-end and AngularJS front-end.

• Built a statistics dashboard for a company that provides cloud based banking solutions using React.

• Worked with a company that provides publishing services to musicians to upgrade their website to the latest version of Ruby on Rails.

• Built a full MVP with sign up flow for a company offering mail order prescription medication using Ruby on Rails.

• Worked with a major health insurance provider to augment their web development team.

Pixelhum

Web Designer & Developer: Aug 2010—Apr 2015

• Designed and built an E-commerce site for Soundunlimited, a Plymouth-based music shop.

WebBased Ltd

Web Developer: Dec 2011—Nov 2012

• Continued the development of a CRM product built using Ruby on Rails 2.3.

• Migrated version control from SVN to git.

Abiquo

Web Developer: Jun 2010—Oct 2011

• Updated and maintained Abiquo’s websites, which were written in both PHP and Ruby on Rails.

• Rebuilt the virtual image exchange site, Thunderflash, using Ruby on Rails 3.