SpecialDeals is a site offering deals to consumers on a wide variety of products and services. As a contractor, I was tasked with taking over maintenance and feature development on the outsourced codebase.

Back End Development

I spent much of my time at SpecialDeals fixing bugs and optimizing front-end and back-end performance.

• AWS EC2 maintenance and ELB installation
• Automated RDS backups to S3
• Responded to capacity overload
• Troubleshot Paypal IPN responses
• Fixed source conflicts
• Moved source code into SVN repository
• Trained team on using SVN
• Found and fixed performance problems in outsourced code

Front End Development

• Optimized front-end code to decrease page load times by 400 - 1200 ms
• Fixed various bugs and implemented various features
• Edited site content for grammar and spelling

Team (3+)

• 1 CEO Product Manager
• 1 Offshore Developer
• 1 Contract Developer (me)
• And a closeknit team in a startup environment

Techologies

• AWS
• Linux
• Apache
• PHP
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript(jQuery)

Duration

Nov 2010 - Jan 2011 ( 3 months )