David Bella

Software Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails

I like to help bridge the gap between people and code

email me: anything @ this website's domain

Experience

: Drip

I'm working on serving analytics to our customers to help guide their email marketing strategy

Previously, I built the account management system for our SMS platform.

I also created a remote job for myself by extending our billing system to collect taxes from our customers in my state of residence.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • SQL
  • Elm
  • Linux
  • Git
  • Twilio
  • Avalara
: StellaService

I helped our customers track performance of their customer service teams until the company's acquisition for $100 million

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Linux
  • Git
  • ElasticSearch
: Namely

I worked on time-off reporting, performance reviews, and social features of Namely's HR platform

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Git
: Hooch

I solo developed the Hooch iOS app, a "drink a day" cocktail service app, which secured $1.25 million in seed funding

  • Objective-C
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Git
  • parse.com
  • Heroku
: XO Group

I worked on a greenfield Content Management System for theknot.com's editorial content as part of an org wide replatforming to Ruby on Rails

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Ruby
  • Git
  • Heroku
: Flatiron School (student)

I attended Flatiron School's fourth class (Ruby 003) and career-shifted into Ruby on Rails

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Ruby
  • JavaScript
  • Git
: FactSet

I wrote a lot of Perl scripts as part of a financial ETL pipeline, eventually designing a replacement to said pipeline

  • Perl
  • Linux
  • OpenVMS
  • Perforce
  • Regex
: University of Connecticut

Graduated with a BSc in Computer Science with electives in Computer Graphics, Parallel Computing, and Computer Security. My senior project was a custom built OCR with OpenCV.

  • C
  • Java
  • Assembly
  • Linux
: Siena College

I enjoyed my time here but I completed all of the Computer Science courses in three semesters. I decided to transfer back to UConn for more courses in my field.

  • Java
: University of Connecticut

I spent my freshman semester here and it didn't click for me, though I did fall in love with Computer Science

  • C
  • Assembly