Søren Houen

Experienced Freelance Backend Developer. Currently looking for opportunities in Golang, Java, C# / .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby

Lead developer on Backend / Ruby

* Take over legacy codebase * Flesh out, restructure, and optimise domain model * Rethink, and recode architecture * Up test coverage to about 90% on legacy codebase * Complete database review * Switch from MongoDB to Postgres due to DB being relational in nature * Dismantle monolithic web app * Introduce End-to-End testing * Set up backup procedures * Configure CI server * Set up automated DB synchronisation, CI / CD * Facilitate massive growth (+1000%) * Set up REST API structure

Early-stage CTO and Lead Ruby / Ruby on Rails web developer with a focus on developing a crowd funding e-commerce platform with very advanced content management and many different user role and permissions. Creation and continued evolvement of complete Ruby on Rails system for BetterNow website and e-commerce system for BetterNow's donation platform. The system was internationalised for 10 countries and 16 languages.

Drupal specialist for the implementation of both frontend and backend of sales website. Andtie needed an e-commerce system for the presentation and sale of their fashion products. This e-commerce system would be integrated with ShipWire API for automatically shipping purchased goods. Business development & strategy, Internationalization effort, Develop www.andtie.net, SEO effort, etc., etc.

Drupal specialist for further development of existing Drupal e-commerce donation platform. BetterNow had an old Drupal solution in very poor condition. I was responsible for creating a new Drupal solution for BetterNow, and further develop its features, including better payment gateway integration, on-the-fly image manipulation, and internationalisation system for content.

Drupal specialist in the implementation of both frontend and backend for the debt collection agency Advis.

Drupal specialist for the implementation of both frontend and backend for CFO services firm Basico. (http://www.linkedin.com/companies/basico-consulting-as)

To help decide what games to add to 999 Credits, I built an SVM / NLP decision engine, FlashBird, to find good games. FlashBird would use the Twitter "garden hose" feed as input, scoped to include a bag-of-words (about 20) relating to flash games, e.g. "game" or "flash".

At houen.net, I created the CMS for the Calreticuling 2011 congress (www.crt2011.com) for Statens Serum Institut using Drupal. The CMS features user management, creation of news, congress participant upload of abstracts with accept / deny workflow by site admins, as well as custom information pages with image content and CAPTCHA evaluation.

Ongoing development of in-house IT projects for use by staff and students, creation of MSI packages for RIS installation, Linux server administration and IT support for staff and students. In-house software development in C#, ASP.net & PHP, Software and driver MSI development coupled with WMI filters, Group Policy Object Management

Exchange student at CU Boulder