Jake Harris

Senior Automation Engineer

Summary

Jake works hard.

Experience

09/2019 - 11/2021

Build And Release Engineer

As Build and Release engineer at GCE, I piloted the DevOps Platform for the marketing team at the largest education services company and largest Christian University in the U.S

  • Created and managed CI/CD workflow for dozens of projects utilizing Azure DevOps, bash scripting, Ansible and more
  • Set up and monitor Qualys scanning for projects of various sizes, ranging from landing pages to 175,0000 page CMS-driven apps
01/2016 - Present

President & Founder

With Scuttlebyte, I focus on working directly with small business owners to craft custom back-end web platforms that to launch their business to the next level of automation

11/2013 - 12/2015

Co Founder

Epiphany is a small, full-service technology consulting firm catered to enterprise-level companies with a need to integrate multiple systems and teams

  • Projects have included customer support portals, e-commerce websites, and general technology consulting
04/2016 - 12/2017

Software Engineer

Maintain and develop new features for a large web-based application serving millions of requests each day Therabill is a medical billing-focused application geared towards Speech Language Pathologists, and Occupational& Physical Therapists, which also offers a full Electronic Medical Records system functionality

10/2014 - 04/2016

Technology Director & Web Developer

Interface directly with internal project management and design teams as well as fellow developers to architect meaningful web solutions on behalf of a wide ranch of clients Extensive use of advanced technologies used daily: - Laravel 4/5 - Vue.js - Eloquent ORM - Symfony2 components - MySQL (Sequel Pro) - Vagrant and Virtualbox - gulp.js - Composer

  • Primary architect for back-end development including REST APIs, custom CMSs, and third-party integrations
  • Utilization of many software design patterns including Factories, Repositories, Commands, and more
  • Modernization of legacy codebases from procedural, script-based PHP to model-view-composer-based (MVC) object-oriented architecture
  • Integration with many third-party APIs including Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe, Mailgun/Mandrill, Campaign Monitor, Amazon Web Services, and more
  • Sysadmin duties including production deployments and staging server maintenance
  • Development of large custom CMS application deployed on multiple projects and maintained as a separate package via Composer
  • Documentation of existing and new systems including diagrams, comprehensive internal and external code documentation, database architecture and and development guides
  • Creation of automated test suites for both third-party APIs and internal projects
  • Maintenance on dozens of very diverse legacy codebases from a diverse group of developers
  • Creation and implementation of mission-critical processes and systems
  • Automated build and deployment tools such as gulp.js, Laravel Forge
  • Custom JIRA development workflow to facilitate the QA and release process
  • Semantic versioning and release process utilizing git pull requests and auto-published release notes
09/2013 - 10/2014

Lead Project Manager

Oversight of the discovery, design, and development processes from start to finish for more than 30 website projects During my time as Lead Project Manager, I oversaw the migration from various web-based project management tools, eventually resting on JIRA, for which I developed a workflow custom-tailored to our development teams I also assisted in the estimation process for new projects and even oversaw ongoing maintenance (supporting dozens of legacy projects) and direct-to-client support

  • Created and managed project budgets, schedules, and requirements while managing day-to-day client relations including weekly status, project kickoff, and requirements-gathering meetings
  • Coordinated a team of two designers and four developers including daily standup meetings and general project milestone accountability
  • International medical device manufacturer, Numerous real estate web products, Ecommerce applications, Learning management systems, Journalism and news sites
11/2012 - 09/2013

Web Content Manager & Front-end Developer

Coordinated and scheduled articles and content for more than 5,000 websites throughout the US, managed a team of freelancers, and leveraged crowd-sourcing tools to produce content for new sites and revive content on outdated sites

  • Developed and maintained thousands of websites on the company's proprietary real estate platform
  • Helped in planning, overall strategy and inter-team operations with the content and operations teams
  • Extensive troubleshooting over a large .NET application and SQL Server database
01/2006 - 05/2012

Webmaster

Operate company websites for Quail and Scottsdale Plumbing and worked as an administrative assistant in both offices