Dan Bickford
Contractor at Like to Build
Live Oak, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolDan Bickford is a self-taught, security-conscious software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and maintaining web applications and infrastructure. He has led full-stack development across Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PHP, Java, and C# .NET, and has hands-on experience as an Ubuntu server administrator and hardware-integrated software engineer. His career spans startups and enterprise teams, including roles at Blackbaud, EVERFI, Sticker Mule, and his own consulting/OSS efforts through Software on Rails/Cedar Valley Software. Comfortable both repairing legacy systems and shipping ground-up products, he combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for security and reliability. Based in Live Oak, Florida, Dan brings an operator’s mindset—owning deployments, databases, and public-facing applications—while maintaining a playful developer spirit (he jokes he is “the cause of and solution to all the bugs”).
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Engineering, Engineer's degree Engineering at Santa Fe CollegeBachelors in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelors in Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
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Github Skills (13)
passenger6
rspec6
mongoose6
partial6
factory-bot6
jquery6
multithreading6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
localstorage4
mongodb4
in-memory3
nodejs3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
codeschool/minimongo
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
memorysyncclient-sidenodejsbacked
EverFi/forked-searchkick
Aug 2018 - Feb 2024
Intelligent search made easy with Rails and Elasticsearch
Contributions:4 releases, 9 reviews, 10 PRs in 5 years 6 months
railsintelligent-searchrubysearch-engineopensearch
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