Reid Beels

Elemental makes high-speed video encoding, transcoding, and packaging software, delivered to enterprise customers as physical or virtualized Linux appliances. I worked on the team responsible for the user interface and APIs of these appliances and for products used to manage clusters of encoders.

• Built an Angular user interface and underlying backend components for managing multi-program MPEG transport streams, then spun this functionality out into a standalone product
• Worked on a 5–7 person team creating Elemental's next-generation cluster management product
• Profiled database queries and improved performance of a complex application
• Improved automated testing infrastructure to provide faster and more comprehensive results
• Technologies: Ruby, Rails, AngularJS, Jenkins, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

Byngo built a platform for running games around real-world activities, initially focused on promoting sustainability on educational and corporate campuses through a partnership with an energy-monitoring company. This company eventually acquired Byngo.

• Worked closely with Byngo's founder to iterate on product design, branding, and an overall look, feel, and personality for the product
• Developed a consistent and responsive web UI, from prototyping through visual design and implementation
• Built a system for dynamic layout and display of data visualization widgets based on the D3 reusable chart pattern
• Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, D3, Backbone, Redis

Paydici developed billing and payment systems for property managers and HOAs, integrating online payments with paper billing and check processing.

• Redesigned management and public-facing payment interfaces for increased usability and accessibility
• Built a robust PDF-generation workflow to facilitate paper statement printing
• Managed technical integration with a third-party lockbox provider for paper check processing
• Designed corporate branding and marketing materials
• Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Backbone, Redis, MySQL

AboutUs provided a wiki page for every domain name on the internet. I contracted on-site for three months working on UX design and Rails development projects.

• Worked within an expertly-managed agile process
• Prototyped and implemented an improved registration and login experience
• Gained experience with metrics-driven usability testing and paper prototyping
• Technologies: Ruby, Rails, MediaWiki

Started and ran a small design and development studio, specializing in branding and interactive work. Worked with a variety of businesses on complete branding packages and with startups and nonprofits on web application development.

• Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Python, Django, PHP, Wordpress

Co-founded a 501(c)(3) organization to produce peer-driven technology events in Portland, Oregon. Stumptown Syndicate produces Open Source Bridge, Ignite Portland, BarCamp Portland, WhereCampPDX, and other occasional activities. I've also worked to automate configuration of Stumptown Syndicate's servers using Chef.

Open Source Bridge is a volunteer-run conference for open source citizens. Its content focuses on bringing people together across multiple platforms, languages and technologies. My role as co-chair includes fundraising, sponsor relations, content selection, and general oversight of the conference, including a yearly budget of roughly $70,000. I've worked on the conference since its inception and designed its logo along with many other bits of collateral.

Calagator was started in 2008 as Portland's technology calendar and has become the de facto place to find user group meetings and other tech-related events on any given night. It's also an open source project, allowing anyone to create a calendar around their own community.

ePDX is a directory of the people, companies, groups, and projects that make up Portland's tech community. Its open-source codebase, dubbed Citizenry, has been used to build similar directories in other cities across the globe.

WhereCamps are unconferences at the intersection of geography, technology, design, and culture. Portland's WhereCamp is now in its eighth year.