Tony Rieker

tony@plenary.org
Portland, OR, United States
https://github.com/Ibuprofen

Experience

Lead Software Engineer - The Walt Disney Company

September 2024 - Current

Tech used at The Walt Disney Company: nodejs

In progress…

Principal Software Engineer - Reperio Health

March 2022 - September 2024

Tech used at Reperio: react native react redux toolkit typescript golang postgres aws lambda sentryio codecov

Built a React Native based mobile application for company warehouses using current best practices (TDD, CI/CD).
Contributed to the internal React based CMS and Golang based API backend.
Created typescript based AWS lambda functions for real time asset tracking.
Close relationship and tight feedback loop with the warehouse and internal stakeholders.
Mentorship in code reviews, naming conventions, patterns, best practices, and design.
Troubleshooting physical hardware issues using bench power supplies, oscilloscopes, etc.

Senior Software Engineer - The Walt Disney Company

October 2017 - March 2022

Tech used at TWDC: react apollo graphql backbone gcp wordpress rack ruby jquery docker varnish nginx nodejs lighthouse

Helped build CMS that powers National Geographic.
Created new functionality and updates on well known sites such as disney.com, starwars.com, abcnews.com, and nationalgeographic.com.
Able to support modern frameworks and libraries as well as older tech.
A team member that others look to for guidance and assistance.

Full Stack Engineer – pandastrike.com

March 2016 - Sept 2017

Tech used at Pandastrike: gcp wordpress rack ruby jquery bamboo docker varnish nginx nodejs

Full time contracting work with teams at Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media.
Ability to work in both a ruby based CMS system as well as Wordpress/php blog sites.
Comfortable navigating the various integrated systems in order to achieve desired results.
New feature development in addition to solving bugs.

Full Stack Engineer – cloudability.com

April 2013 - July 2015

Tech used at Cloudability: reactjs backbone ruby ruby-on-rails REST mysql css3 html5 jquery amazon-web-services git github ubuntu

Part of the team who rewrote a major feature from Angular to React.
Extensive work in Backbone, which our frontend was mostly comprised of.
One of few engineers comfortable across most of the stack. Some days I would find myself creating new models, db indexes, relations, API endpoints and could then hop into the javascript to continue upwards.
Agile-like development process with week long sprints and “horse trading” on feature details to meet deadlines.

Senior Web Developer / Full Stack Engineer – 10Speak.com

February 2012 - June 2012

Tech used at 10Speak: ruby ruby-on-rails mysql css3 html5 jquery amazon-web-services amazon-ec2 javascript jquery-ui git github

Enjoyable first experience with Ruby on Rails.
Open graph integration.
ICS downloads.
Startup was shutdown summer 2012.

Senior Web Developer / Full Stack Engineer – Forkfly.com

September 2010 - December 2011

Tech used at ForkFly: php php-fpm mysql percona nginx symfony2 amazon-web-services amazon-ec2 jquery javascript jquery-ui jenkins-ci

Early mobile site refactoring.
In-house analytics solution to aid in Publisher and Merchant data. Impressions/Views breakdown.
Improved DevOps and helped move infrastructure into Cloud / AWS. Documented unknown processes that were implemented prior to my employment. Chroot/jailed nginx and php-fpm.
Twice rewrote consumer facing site using extensive javascript.
Extended frontend Mixpanel library to batch track for better performance.
Forkfly eventually rebranded to CloudEngage.

Founder / Full Stack Engineer – PbNation, LLC - pbnation.com

December 2000 - May 2009

Tech used at PbNation: php mysql mysqli redhat memcached vbulletin apache nginx

Responsible for scaling up 14th (at that time) largest message board on the Internet and the 3rd largest vBulletin forum install.
Interface with 100+ volunteer members.
Responsible for troubleshooting and helping maintain a cluster serving 500,000 registered users, serving over 30 million page views a month.
Helped the vbulletin community by open sourcing some of our code to aid with scaling issues.
Wrote pay-per-view access for live professional paintball events.
Live webcasted said professional events.
On call 24/7.
Acquired by publicly traded CrowdGather in 2011.

Technology

react native typescript redux toolkit golang reactjs docker backbonejs aws gcp ruby ruby-on-rails REST php symfony2 nodejs jquery javascript derbyjs twitter-bootstrap css css3 html html5 photoshop adobe-illustrator mysql mysqli mongodb mongoid memcached tire elasticsearch centos ubuntu linux nginx apache gentoo git github mvc sublimetext2 virtualization jenkins-ci python

Education

Some University of Cincinnati Computer Science, 2001 - 2002
Lehman Catholic High School, 1997 - 2001

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