Justin Marney

PDF gotascii@gmail.com
Experience
  • Developer, Viget Labs
    January 2008 - Present
    • Act as technical lead on multiple Ruby on Rails projects with responsibilities that include leading weekly code reviews, identifying and implementing refactoring opportunities, and maintaining a quality code base. Provide mentorship to junior developers via frequent pair-programming sessions.
    • KaBOOM! Playspace Builder
      Led a team of developers to create a playground project management system using Ruby on Rails. The application provides both users and admins with a toolset to assist in planning and building community-driven playground construction projects.
    • I-Agent
      Developed a real estate search and lead generation application using a custom built Ruby interface to the premiere Mid-Atlantic MLS and Ruby on Rails. The project resulted in radarb, the open-source Outside.in API wrapper.
    • Heycraig
      Used Sinatra and DataMapper to develop a web application that allows people to receive email alerts for items they are searching for on craigslist. The project resulted in crags, an open-source Craigslist search wrapper.
  • Developer, Matrix Group
    November 2004 - December 2007
    • Developed multi-tier application using MSSQL, NHibernate, C#, and ASP.Net in order to streamline a lengthy paper and mail-based process.
    • Focused on applying design patterns and an object-oriented architecture to handle multiple core system upgrades over a 3-year period.
    • Developed a central e-commerce and membership database by integrating with an in-house Python-based association management system.
  • Developer, IBT
    January 1999 - November 2004
    • Managed a web application development project for a third-party health care claims management company.
    • Performed network administration duties at 9 small-to-mid-size client networks in the D.C. area.
Education
  • B.S., Computer Science, George Mason University, 2006
Open Source
  • radarb: A ruby gem that makes using the Outside.in API simple
  • simple_importer: Simple API for importing from csv, tsv and xml
  • multilife: PureData midi sequencer for the monome driven by the game of life
  • hurl: rb-appscript wrapper built to assist in scripting terminal events
  • crags: Search across multiple craigslist locations
  • rmonome: Ruby monome library
  • lilylife: Game of life sequencer in lily
  • sonifier: Turn a web page into beeps/glitches, sequence them with a monome
  • monomap: Lily patch that allows you to control a google map with the monome
  • processing: My processing sketchbook
  • mephisto_github: Mephisto plugin that exposes the github api through a liquid tag
  • talks: various presentations and associated assets
  • pygrack: Syntax highlighting middleware via the Unofficial Pygments API
  • metaprogramming: A collection of notes, codes and various further readings that accompanied the December 12th Hackday event.
  • gotascii.github.com: jekyll driven github page
  • lwjac: light-weight jsonp comments
Community
  • Ruby Hacknight
    Co-Founded a Ruby user group focused on bringing together beginner and experienced hackers in a friendly setting.
  • Hackday
    Helped plan and lead a series of free 1/2 day workshops on various Ruby and Ruby on Rails topics such as Refactoring Rails Controllers & Test-Driven Development in Rails.
  • Learning Processing
    Started a bi-weekly session focused on teaching artists and designers how to program using Processing.
Presentations
Writing
  • Viget Labs Extend: Author posts on Ruby and Ruby on Rails topics. The latest posts can be reached here.
  • sorescode.com: Publish articles on various topics both developer and personally oriented.