Billy Cravens
Director Of Technology at Houston ColdFusion Users Group
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Cravens is a seasoned Director of Technology with 14+ years building and operating production web platforms, currently owning the full stack at Refund Retriever where he architected the in-house systems that audit UPS and FedEx billing. Comfortable both writing Ruby on Rails code and managing Dockerized AWS infrastructure, he blends hands-on engineering (Sidekiq, Puppeteer/Playwright) with long-term operational stewardship. He began as a consultant and ColdFusion specialist and has repeatedly modernized legacy systems into cloud-first services, evidencing deep familiarity with Linux, SQL Server, and CI/CD. Based in Houston, he runs community tech meetups and prefers technical conversations over recruiter outreach, reflecting a pragmatic, product-focused leadership style that favors durable, auditable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Southeastern Oklahoma State UniversityAssociate of Science, Business Administration and Management, Associate of Science, Business Administration and Management at Lee College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,653reputation
108kreached
39answers
1question
coldfusion
top-5%
Github Skills (37)
pdf-generation10
collaborative-editing9
rich-text-editor9
coldfusion9
shell8
cli8
collaboration8
documents8
etherpad8
video-conferencing7
php7
zsh7
macos6
nodejs6
sql6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bdcravens/cf10-vagrant
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year
bdcravens/dokku-git-hook-test
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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