Winston Kotzan
Web Development Consultant at Various Companies
Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolWinston Kotzan is a web development consultant and former senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building back-end heavy full-stack applications, particularly on Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and Vue/React stacks. He has deep domain experience applying software to finance and healthcare—most notably rebuilding core accounting systems at Avant for a multi-billion dollar loan portfolio and shipping clinical drug-data integrations at First DataBank. Comfortable across the stack, Winston blends strong SQL and Excel data modeling with practical devops and automation to simplify complex workflows. As an entrepreneur and builder he founded Lunker.com and ran a software business selling utilities worldwide, and he’s applied Ruby to trading by scripting market data integrations with TD Ameritrade and Stocktwits. He favors pragmatic refactors that eliminate technical debt and has a track record of converting analytic insight into production tools. Based in Indiana with a finance degree from Indiana University and a CIS background from Purdue, he brings a rare mix of financial domain knowledge and hands-on engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Finance, Bachelor of Science, Finance at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessAssociate of Science, Computer Information Systems Technology, Associate of Science, Computer Information Systems Technology at Purdue University
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Github Skills (121)
mvc10
ruby10
pdf-generation10
activerecord10
wkhtmltopdf10
ruby-on-rails10
pdfkit10
youtube10
html10
spina-cms10
cli10
ameritrade10
youtube-dl10
pdf-files10
rails10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wakproductions/stock_market_days
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
A Ruby gem for determining which days the US stock market is open
Contributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 11 months
stock-marketruby-gemrailsus-stock-marketruby
wakproductions/ycurve-vue
Aug 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
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