Rowan Hamilton | Software Engineer

  • Rowan Hamilton

  • Full-Stack Software Engineer
Rowan Hamilton, Software Engineer

Hello there! My name's Rowan and I'm a Software Engineer specializing in full-stack JavaScript. I enjoy collaborating on innovative projects, using my creativity to solve problems and bring applications to life. When I'm not coding, I enjoy hanging out with my two corgis, playing video games and generating AI art masterpieces. Let's connect!

NodeJS
Express
Fastify
Next.js
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
React
React Hooks
Redux
Material UI
Formik
Cypress
Git
AWS Lambda
AWS S3
AWS API-Gateway
TypeScript
React Native
Electron
Storybook
Recoil
MongoDB
PostgreSQL

Particle Industries

Particle Industries

Internet of things (PaaS)

  • • Responsible in backend aspects of device micro-service development on software used by millions of IOT devices across the world.
  • • Worked on small team of remote devs, working through tasks and providing constructive feedback in daily code reviews
  • • Owned major features from requirements review to release, developing standards and patterns used by others
  • • Headed transition of moving all device traffic from ZeroMQ to using HTTP/2
Particle

Freightview

Freightview

a neutral, cloud-based transportation management system (TMS) software platform

  • • a freight price aggregator, integrating with freight carrier APIs
  • • Owned by C.H. Robinson, Freightview stands apart from other TMS solutions with its ease of use
  • • During my time at freightview I was responsible for the implemention of 100+ freight carriers, all of these carrier implementions had their own set of rules.
Freightview

Tapes

Tapes

a IPTV Electron application

  • • Allows users to play IPTV streams from across the world
  • • Full gamepad support
  • • a clean user interface that works well on handheld gaming devices
GitHub

Crispy Tesla DOOM

Crispy Tesla DOOM

Play DOOM in your Tesla

  • • Developed using WebAssembly
  • • a port using Emscripten
  • • Gamepad support targeted for Tesla's Chromium based browser
GitHub Crispy Tesla DOOM
work PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Particle, San Francisco, CA, Senior Software Engineer 2022 - 2023
• Worked on creating a Storage and Compute solution written in Rust. Created various Lambda functions with API gateway routes. • Moved all existing device communication from using ZeroMQ over to HTTP/2 • Owned major features from requirements review to release, developing standards and patterns used by others • Joined voluntary on-call SRE team • Modernized various stale repos
Freightview, Overland Park, KS, Software Engineer III 2017 - 2022
• Increased profits around 3M+ • Lead developer on integrating over 100+ carrier APIs across our micro services, each API with its own set of rules, restrictions and quirks. This includes, rating, tracking, documents, transit, etc. • Work with individual freight carriers web services team to better their APIs • Won FedEx compatible Partner of the year 2021
Digital Ally, Lenexa, KS, Web Applications Developer 2015 - 2017
• Lead Software developer for: VuVault Mini Dock • Lead Software developer for: FleetVu Upload Dock • Lead Software developer for: FleetVu Wireless Gateway • Lead Software developer for: Lychee Online Web IDE • Promoted as Lead Software Engineer for newly created commercial Software Engineering Team • Created both client and server side implementations for various projects • Created, outlined and designed our internal Web Based IDE • Cross compiled Node.js to work on old armv5le hardware to help close the gap between the embedded software team and their needs to access Amazon APIs • Created various server side utilities for monitoring logs and services • Designed Web based tools for other departments • Deployed VPCs • Deployed SMS Gateway for Sprint Command Center using Kannal • Certified cellular 2G IOT product for use on Sprints legacy 2G network
library_books EDUCATION
CompTIA A+ Certified Professional2004
BAKER UNIVERSITY2009