Michael Ocana

Technical Lead & Drupal Specialist

CareSharing Inc.

Position
Senior Ruby Developer
Start Date
01, Jan 2009 - 29, Feb 2012

Technical lead focused on developing and scaling healthcare-oriented web applications, leveraging the Ruby on Rails framework to build secure, high-availability systems within a Linux environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Application Engineering: Design and develop robust, scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to frontend requests.
  • Legacy System Support: Maintain and optimize existing Perl/CGI scripts, facilitating the integration or migration of legacy data into modern Rails architectures.
  • Full-Stack Implementation: Create dynamic and interactive user interfaces using HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery, focused on improving the clinician and patient user experience.
  • Database Management: Architect and manage MySQL databases, optimizing complex queries and ensuring data integrity for sensitive healthcare information.
  • System Administration: Manage application deployment and server configuration within a Linux environment, ensuring system security and 99.9% uptime.
  • Technical Leadership: Lead code reviews, mentor junior developers, and contribute to architectural decisions to maintain a high-quality, test-driven codebase.
Tools
Ruby on Rails
Linux
Perl/CGI
MySQL
JQuery
Javascript
HTML

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