Vincent Khougaz

Vincent Khougaz

Web & Mobile Developer

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About Me

I'm a passionate maker with experience across the web and mobile fields. I have an eclectic collection of hobbies and am always learning new things

Outside of code I enjoy climbing, metal fabrication, woodworking, motorcycle touring, and building quadcopters.

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Featured Work

Watchmegrow website

Specific Solutions Website GatsbyJS Blog Content

A content outlet for my personal and professional projects

  • Hyper responsive GatsbyJS website
  • Modern design
  • Semantic JSX views for ergonomic development
Watchmegrow website

WatchMeGrow

Managed small team and made significant contributions in developing a single page app and associated backend services to update existing infrastructure. Scope of project included video streaming, historical footage access, administering classroom membership, controlling parent access, system administration, and scheduling.

Zen Video Cloud

Zen Video

Developed first iteration of a yoga studo video reseller platform. Studios sign up using a credit card and can host videos, then the studios customers are billed for video views through MindBody. Many diverse services were tied together including Amazon Elastic Transcoder, Stripe APIs, MindBody APIs. Work was done in Python/Django and Javascript/Angular

Projects

Cryptoclash Cryptocurrency Game Django Visualization

A live market prediction game where players can guess which currency will rise the most in a given time period and see live results with entertaining visualizations. Led small team.

  • Blockchain monitoring and transactions using direct bitcoind RPC calls
  • Live site updates showing actions taken by other players
  • Realtime charts and visualizations depending on market swings and players choices

Shift Bike Calendar Rewrite Open Source PHP+Javascript

Local Portland bike group Shift 2 Bikes is rewriting their calendar to be more responsive and modern. Updates include more modern javascript practice and a rewritten API.

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Work Experience

Technical Lead - 503 Development (2019-01 - 2019-09)

  • Architected and led team in rebuilding car auction website and app
  • Refined requirements from a marketing slide deck to developer tasks
  • Built monorepo in typescript to target the web, app, and backend with shared code
  • Trained team in type driven development and code best practices
  • Developed business process for scalable software development

Application Developer - Survant James/WatchMeGrow (2018-02 - 2018-09)

  • Architected and led team in rebuilding video streaming front and backends
  • Developed security conscious code using verifiable and tested state-machines to manage sensitive user information
  • Developed libraries to mock internal processes to increase testability
  • Created a screenshot tool allowing the automated generation of launch images during the Continuous Integration process

Wordpress Developer - Smith + Crown (2017-09 - 2018-01)

Build out the content portal for a initial coin offering research company using wordpress.

  • Significant api customization to provide api data to frontend
  • Advanced continuous deployment process involving AWS automation
  • Content baking and caching systems eliminate API calls in frequently visited pages
  • Custom plugins provide a more ergonomic article writing process

Freelance Mobile Developer - Survant James (2016 - 2018, various)

Survant James is a digital agency focusing on native iOS and Android apps. Worked on 2‐4 person teams on mission‐critical apps in the education and healthcare sectors

  • Maintained and developed new features on existing apps
  • Developed security conscious code using verifiable and tested state-machines to manage sensitive user information
  • Developed libraries to mock internal processes to increase testability
  • Created a screenshot tool allowing the automated generation of launch images during the Continuous Integration process

Freelance PHP Laravel/Drupal Developer - Undisclosed (7-2015 - 2-2016)

  • Maintained and performance tuned an extensive Drupal catalog
  • Maintained and extended payment portal using the Laravel PHP web framework. Customers use this portal to receive and pay invoices as well as view complex financial reports
  • Setup and maintained large MySQL and PostgreSQL databases

Software Engineer - Hathway (2014-05 - 2015-07)

Hathway is a digital agency focusing on mobile and PHP sites. Worked on 2‐8 person teams with full stack development responsibilities

  • Tech lead on a mixed team of contractors and local engineers for a public Drupal StackOverflow‐like Q&A forum, wiki, and documentation site. Complex custom modules were developed to exacting requirements on a tight deadline
  • Designed and built a Drupal deployment system allowing easy deployment, content migration, development coordination, and configuration management
  • Built the credit report app for a major financial company using Appcelerator/JavaScript. App is currently available on both Apple and Google stores
  • Developed an intimate understanding of git, and implemented the git flow workflow on my team
  • Deployed and maintained many Linux/nginx/PHP/MySQL software stacks
  • Built frontend JavaScript UI elements using jQuery and designed HTML+CSS according to a provided Photoshop document

Freelance Python/Django Developer - Zen Video (2013-01 - 2013-04)

Developed a reseller video hosting service. Students sign up to a yoga studio, and when they view a video attendance is billed through MindBody. Studios pay for the service through Square. Site built in Python/Django/AngularJS, video processing and storage in the cloud through Amazon Web Services. Front end HTML+JavaScript was built to a provided design

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