Kenneth "Alex" Gravely

Full Stack Developer


Critical thinker. Knack for debugging problems. Ambitious and eager to learn new things. Jack of all trades, able to template a website design, construct the backend, setup continuous deployment.

Professional, freelance, and hobby developer for (approximately) ...

Work Experience

Software Developer, Professional Rehabilitative Options, INC.

January 2022 - Present

PRO INC. provides MEdical Case Manager solutions, maintaining efficient and effective oversight on workplace injuries.

  • Maintain and develop the company's internal web application for Field Case Management.

Software Developer / Technical Support, Ziiva

January 2018 - January 2022

Ziiva provides SAAS through Prosperity, their Online Learning Management Platform, simplying the needs of managing training employees for enterprise corporations or selling online courses for people looking to start up an online business.

  • Provided implementation, consultation, configuration, and technical support to existing customers on customizations to their site instance to meet their training, reporting, and ecommerce needs.
  • Maintained multi-tenant ColdFusion application, using HTML/CSS/JS to handle client website branding, ColdFusion for functionality changes, server-side maintenance in IIS, and database management in MSSQL.
  • Developed several internal tools with .NET for simplying large scriptable tasks needed for client implementation or modification.
  • Provided technical support via phone and email whenever an issue with the site arose, identifiying problems through meticulous debugging, and seeing a fix through to the end, confirming issue is resolved through testing.

Programming Associate, Star City Games

October 2014 - March 2015

Star City Games operates the largest Magic the Gathering ecommerce website.

  • Self taught VB.NET and C# for development and reimplementation of internal applications necessary for day to day operations.
  • Maintain internal card databases using MS Access and MySQL.

Web Developer, Roanoke College (Work Study)

May 2013 - September 2013

Offered as a Work Study option, Roanoke College provides jobs in their IT department for students to get early experience in a corporate environment and cultivate their skills with hands on experience while earning their degrees.

  • Learn and develop a full stack setup for intra-department campus activities; HTML, CSS, JavaScript for the frontend, ColdFusion for the serverside language, and MSSQL for the database.
  • Assist with setup of new campus owned computers for student and faculty use by installing Windows and configuration for restricted use.

Skills

Languages

C Sharp
C#
ColdFusion
ColdFusion
JavaScript
JavaScript
HTML
HTML
CSS
CSS
GraphQL
GraphQL
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
MSSQL
MSSQL
PHP
PHP

Frameworks

WordPress
WordPress
Dot Net Core
.NET Core
Git
Git
jQuery
jQuery
NGINX
NGINX
React
React
Svelte
Svelte
LESS
LESS
Sass/SCSS
SASS/SCSS

Systems

Windows
Windows
Ubuntu
Ubuntu

Education

Applied Computer Science, Roanoke College

August 2012 - September 2013

Course Work - Fundamentals of CS (Python), Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Security, System Administration

Interests & Side Projects

Freelance Full Stack Developer

July 2013 - Present

  • YGOrganization / CardfightCoalition

    • Sole maintainer for trading card game niche WordPress sites, managing upkeep of front-end design and server-side stability, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, NGINX, and Ubuntu.
  • DragonForce / Herman Li

    • Sole maintainer for WordPress site for the metal band DragonForce and the personal website of bassist Herman Li. Managing upkeep of front-end design and server-side stability, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, NGINX, and Ubuntu.
  • HeroSync

    • Maintainer of React front-end website, powered by a headless WordPress installation.
    • Assist in development of game, contributing to the Unity game engine implementation, and providing ASP.NET Core API applications for internal usage.
  • Loudon Avenue Christian Church

    • Sole maintainer of WordPress site for a local church.

Open Source Contributions

June 2016 - Present

  • Discord Bot Developer, Discord.NET

    • Developer of four Discord Bot Applications written in C# to aid in community engagement for Yu-Gi-Oh, RuneScape, World of Warcraft, and webhook management for the YGOrganization/Cardfight Coalition websites.
    • Contributor and repository assistant manager for the Discord.NET library, a C# wrapper for the Discord chat application's API.
  • CFDocs

    • Provided several contributions to CFDocs, a hosted documentation site for the ColdFusion language.