Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable Ruby on Rails applications.
Configure, optimize, and scale Puma, Unicorn, Falcon or other application servers for high-performance systems.
Architect and deploy Rails applications using AWS services (ECS, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, IAM).
Build, maintain, and scale Docker-based microservices with Kubernetes orchestration.
Drive migration projects from Blackboard to Canvas LMS, ensuring:
Secure and accurate migration of courses, content, and user data.
API-based integrations between Canvas LMS and internal/external systems.
Performance tuning, testing, and validation of migrated systems.
Collaborate with DevOps and product teams on CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and monitoring.
Work with caching and background processing systems (Redis, Sidekiq, SQS, Kafka) to optimize app performance.
Implement monitoring and alerting systems (CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana).
Participate in code reviews, provide technical leadership, and mentor junior engineers.
6+ years of software development experience, with strong expertise in Ruby on Rails.
Proven experience in Blackboard to Canvas LMS migration (data migration, integrations, APIs, LTI, SCORM).
Strong knowledge of Puma Unicorn, Falcon or other application servers tuning, concurrency, and scaling.
Hands-on experience with AWS cloud (ECS, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM).
Proficiency with Docker/Kubernetes for containerized deployments.
Experience with Linux servers, Nginx/Apache, load balancers.
Expertise with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and performance optimization.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed, high-traffic systems.