Ray Parker

Founded a software consultancy offering traditional consulting and team-based project staffing. Created 'The Bakery' mentorship program to train and place junior developers on production teams.

Designed and built a full-stack musician networking platform from scratch, including cross-platform mobile apps, React web apps, Rails + GraphQL API, admin/CRM, and production infrastructure. Implemented subscription billing with Venmo/PayPal integrations and managed multi-environment deployments.

Leading Qt/C++ desktop application development for proprietary 3D video technology supporting VR headsets, laptops, and consoles.

Built a cross-platform C++ abstraction layer for a tiling desktop manager supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux. Implemented portable business logic for transferring user configurations and saved desktops via a single file, with interop for Swift and .NET/C#.

Launched a pilot mentorship program pairing junior developer training with real client delivery. Built a Rails/GraphQL API and Qt/C++ desktop application for a client who could not otherwise afford custom software.

Sole backend developer; migrated backend to GraphQL architecture and built a generic data-ingestion server with GraphQL interface that powered dynamically generated front-end pages.

Led backend for a scheduling application with GraphQL for mobile and web; evaluated and planned Heroku to AWS migration using Chef.

Stabilized and overhauled the test suite on a large Rails application; upgraded custom data-access classes to strong parameters with endpoint-specific messaging.

Designed custom caching strategy and a reusable ActiveRecord List module; mentored junior/mid-level developers and facilitated enterprise AWS partnership.

Led team delivering API-driven products; drove TDD/BDD adoption in close collaboration with product and business stakeholders.

Architected RESTful JSON brokering API providing a uniform interface to disparate backends; introduced Agile + BDD with granular feature tracking; built JSON transformation library with schema conversion, type checking, and validation.

Rails Guild Lead across US/Europe teams; raised test coverage from 0% to 80%+ on a large legacy app and designed a new Rails API to meet evolving requirements.

Maintained and enhanced a skinnable e-commerce platform serving 800+ artist sites. Led Rails 2.2 to 3.0 upgrade across store and CMS; introduced TDD and TeamCity CI. Supported high-traffic infrastructure with steady ~3,000 req/s and spikes to ~30,000 req/s.

Built customer-matching service that evolved from traditional web app into RESTful API serving Angular front ends; hired and managed developers and established Pivotal Tracker workflow.

Delivered new products with a distributed European team; served as technical liaison to the CEO and instituted Agile requirements gathering and LOE estimation.

Built Rails content server for TouchChords iPhone app; developed custom C++ Finite State Machine for guitar fingering analysis and voicing.

Developed enterprise C++ applications including market-trading simulation and 24/7 cross-platform messaging system. Processed 5,000 rows/second with sub-2-second delivery to 250 traders.

Completed coursework in computer science, including compiler design, object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.