I've developed dozens of web apps, APIs, and backend services during my years developing with JavaScript. JavaScript is my core language, so ES6, transpilers, promises, FRP, CSP, functional programming, meta programming, and more are what I live and breathe each and every day. On the frontend, I focus on React and Flux.

I've helped launch several React/Flux based applications for VC funded startups and larger companies alike. I am also an open source contributor on the subject, for both committing to existing React/Flux projects and also creating new libraries.

One of the top 25 most influential Scala developers on GitHub (per https://github.com/floydsoft/the-most-influential-developers-on-github). I've used Scala as my core language to solve problems in the domains of natural language processing, stream processing, machine learning, and general computing. 

I have oodles of experience at the data center level, with things like colocation, networking, and setting up redundant/distributed data center architectures. Server hardware is also another speciality and I have hand built hundreds of servers for companies getting off more costly solutions like AWS. Also well over a decade of experience on the server admin end of things as well for both Linux and Unix (though primarily Ubuntu/Debian these days).

Additionally, I have expertise in a myriad of tools (e.g. Ansible, Vagrant, Docker, Xen) over the years to scale systems with millions and millions of users. One of the more recent interesting examples would be a dervitive of this open source project I created called Canvas LMS Cloud (https://github.com/rockymadden/canvas-lms-cloud). The Canvas LMS (https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms) is a vertically scaling architecture out of the box. I worked with a company that had clients like Walmart (~800k employees). The challenge was leveraging the Canvas LMS and making it horizontally scalable. Typically you can get ~75,000 users with Canvas with some of the best hardware you can throw at it, as many universities can atest. We were able to successfully scale well beyond 1 million users with my solution. 

I served as SEO strategist top 250 trafficked websites in the United States (i.e. sites with hundreds of millions of users per year). I've worked directly with Google, Yahoo, and Bing. I also have several data centric properties which pull in millions of users a year and large amounts of passive income (i.e. 60k+/yr).

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Rocky M.

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Technical skills