Steve Rucker
Senior Developer at University of Miami
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Rucker is an award-winning senior developer with nearly two decades of experience building interactive, brand-driven web experiences for global clients from Coca-Cola to Mentos. He blends front-end expertise in HTML5, JavaScript (including Backbone and node.js) with back-end skills in ColdFusion, Python/Django and SQL to deliver responsive, animated, API-driven applications. At agencies like SapientNitro and product companies like Kairos he has applied computer vision and AI-era integrations as well as sophisticated UX animations and Canvas work. Based in Fort Lauderdale, he currently helps scale businesses at Chameleon Collective through a flat, multidisciplinary approach that pairs technical execution with strategic product thinking. A trained musician and long-time Director of Drumset Studies at the University of Miami, he brings uncommon creative perspective and rhythm-based discipline to technical problem solving. His career is marked by high-profile creative recognition (multiple Webby and W3 Awards) alongside deep hands-on engineering across legacy and modern stacks.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Music, Master's degree, Music at University of Miami
Github Skills (13)
python9
kubernetes8
facial-recognition8
api7
docker6
javascript6
php4
face-recognition3
python-client1
face1
computer-vision1
client-library1
face-detection1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kairosinc/Kairos-SDK-Javascript
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Javascript SDK for the Kairos Facial Recognition API. Use this to power your Facial Recognition Software.
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 10 months
facial-recognitionjavascript
steverucker/drbeat
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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