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a CV for Bryan Gilbert, B.Sc.(Hon), M.Sc. – a full stack DevSecOps developer

Project: No Password Authorization

• Organization: Open source
• October 2020 to present
• Situation: Continually encounter the need to add user authentication into projects. This is work-in-progress project. Watch (https://npuser.org) for information as this project is developed.

Project: BC Registries - BC Online PPR Replacement

Senior full stack developer

• Organization: BC Registries
• Project: Personal Property Registry (PPR) mainframe replacement
• November 2019 to April 2020

• Situation: Registries was replacing its legacy software applications with a modern technology stack. Our team began the development of this replacement using DevOps practices of continuous delivery and integration; Agile methodology; human-centred design; open source programming languages and frameworks, and a cutting-edge enterprise containerization platform. This multi-year project was cut short due to budgetary constraints.

• Outcomes:
  • Vue 3-ready front end UI
  • In 10 days developed PPR preliminary prototype application that illustrates a possible vision of what a PPR could be.
  • Collaboration with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, UX designer, API and DB team, and other product delivery teams.
  • Continuous integration via Github actions, automated unit tests and static analysis tools.
  • Agile team player.
  • Part-time facilitator and scrum lead.
  • Ensure quality and adherence to specifications through the use of automated testing
  • Presentations and demonstrations for stakeholders and other product teams
  • Established strong, productive relationships and contributed to a positive and supportive culture
  • Participate in technical communications with stakeholders
• Tech Stack: VUE.js (composition api), JavaScript, Docker, Docker-compose, SCSS, Git, Jest, OpenShift, Sentry, Launch Darkly, ZenHub,

Project: Educational Electronic Health Record System (EdEHR)

Product lead, solutions architect and full stack developer

• Organizations: On contract to various educational institutions
• December 2019 to present
• Continue the development of the EdEHR as initiated by BCCampus (see below).
• Develop, lead and implement a series of in classroom pilot experiences in various BC educational institutions.
• Continue providing enhancements to the EdEHR, including directing and leading a small development team.

Project: BattleSnake

Python, FastAPI web server

https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps

As a challenge and for fun I joined the world of BattleSnake. This is such a cool idea because beginner programmers can start small and more experienced developers work on their design and algorithm skills. A BattleSnake is a web server that minimally responds to a “move” web service call. The BattleSnake game displays a grid (say 11 by 11) and up to eight snakes (different web servers). The game consists of a sequence of moves; each move being a web service call to each of the web servers. Each server responds with the best move it can determine for its snake. Each snake is moved and it dies if it hits another snake, goes out of bounds or butt heads with another snake the same size or bigger. The game ends when there is one surviving snake. Oh, it’s important to know that each web service call must complete within one half second or the game will decide which way your snake will move.

Because this is so simple and because so many people have provided starters, tutorials and documentation it is easy for a starting developer to try it out and work with others. Yet the problem of finding a safe move for your snake is super hard. Many people are adding in machine learning and AI to find the solution.

Unlike other people’s work my web server is written in Python using the FastAPI with Pydantic. I’ve also designed my own algorithms to create a snake that is quite competitive agains some other proficient snakes.

https://github.com/bryan-gilbert/starter-snake-python

Project: BCcampus - EdEHR

Solutions architect and MEVN full stack DevOps developer

• Organization: BCcampus
• September 2018 to January 2020
• Educational Electronic Health Record System (EdEHR)

• Objective: develop an open-source pilot ready application that simulates an electronic health record system similar to that used in hospitals for use in a post secondary medical education. Until now medical students had no exposure to this critical technological aspect of their profession.

• Outcomes:
  • Recently the EdEHR was successfully used in a classroom with 214 students. These students had no prior experience with this EHR yet the majority completed an in-classroom assignment in less than an hour. The overall response was the application was easy to learn and use.
  • Development is continuing via funding from BCIT.
  • Working with a remote developer Byran is continuing to add improvements; including medication prescription and administration and JWT web security.
  • Under the direction of the Product Owner, lead the planning, analysis, architecture, development, quality management and support of the new system
  • Ensure the project is open source so that all can benefit
    • https://github.com/BCcampus/edehr
  • As part of an Agile team collaborate with the Product Owner, UX designer, BCcampus staff, the Project Steering Committee and other stakeholders to understand project objectives and business and system requirements
  • Incrementally deliver value to achieve the objectives of the stakeholders
  • Develop ‘full-stack’ (including database, models, views/UI, controllers, RESTful APIs) web application to meet project objectives and system requirements
  • Ensure quality and adherence to specifications through the use of automated testing and creation and implementation of a release management plan using automated build and deployment technologies
  • Participate in technical communications with stakeholders
  • Model best practices in the open source, open policy community by producing shareable tools and supporting documentation
  • Establish strong, productive relationships and contribute to a positive and supportive culture
  • Undertake other tasks as required to support the project:
    • identify and specify hardware requirements
    • assist with the development of training for end-users
    • assist with testing the developed application
    • provide input into a sustainability plan
• Tech Stack: VUE.js, Vuex, React, Webpack, Babel, JavaScript, Node JS, Nginx, Express, Debian, UFW, HTTPs, Jade (Pug), Docker, Docker-compose, MongoDB, SCSS, Git, Mocha, Chai, Supertest, and more

Project: EAO - EPIC & MEM

Full stack MEAN developer in an agile team.

• Organization: Quartech Technologies to BC Government
• 2017, 6 months
• Objective: replace legacy information system with a modern technology stack that supports continuous delivery and integration of digital products through DevOps practices.
• These are open-source projects:
  • https://github.com/bcgov/esm-server EPIC for the BC Environmental Assessment Office
  • https://github.com/bcgov/mem-admin MEM for the Ministry of Energy and Mines
  • https://github.com/bcgov/mem-mmti
• Outcomes:
  • Achieve improved efficiency and transparency of the provincial environmental assessment processes that provide citizens and stakeholders with more intuitive access to project data and information.
  • The project was based at the Province’s Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) Lab where developers are encouraged to experiment with modern product delivery tools and techniques including: the Agile Methodology, open source programming languages and frameworks, and a cutting-edge enterprise containerization platforms.
  • Agile team consisted of key ministry personal, project management, developers and DevOps
  • Bryan provided
    • Full stack MEAN development skills (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node)
    • Add features and perform maintenance on the applications using AngularJS, Javascript, NodeJS, Express, MongoDb, Mongoose, Openshift, etc.
    • 7th top contributor to ESM-server project (139 total contributors since 2013)
    • 10th top contributor to MEM project (137 total contributors since 2013)
    • Create tools to perform extract transform load (ETL) tasks
    • Mentor less experienced team members
    • Automate importation of documents provided by ministry
    • Back end data modelling
    • Front end UI, data processing, manipulation, display and downloads
    • Prototyping
• Tech Stack: Angular, JavaScript, SCSS, CSS, JSON, RESTful APIs, MongoDB, ETL, Nginx, WebStorm, Git, OpenShift, Agile, Scrum, Slack, JIRA, Continuous Integration.

Project: React in a day

Learns new technologies quickly and accurately

• 2018, 1 day
• Objective: Complete an assignment within 24 hours to demonstrate technical ability.
• Situation: The assignment required React. Unfortunately, Bryan had no exposure or experience with React or the React environment. He could’ve declined the assignment but instead he took the challenge to not only do the assignment within the time period but to learn React too. React is considered a moderately difficult system to learn and most say to allow several weeks to gain basic proficiency.
• Outcomes:
  • Learned how to create, develop and deploy a React application (with Babel and Webpack).
  • Make API calls to retrieve data from other sites
  • React work completed on time. Provided a complete installable open source repository with the results:
    • https://github.com/bryan-gilbert/assignments

Project: DevOp MeetUp

Shares and mentors

• Started May 2019
• MeetUp website
• Objective: Explore various aspects of full stack DevSecOps with a focus on these technologies: Docker, Security, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Vue.js
  • Open to all levels of experience and interest.
  • This is a chance to share knowledge and to learn from others.
  • We have semi-regular table discussions and
  • members are welcome to host workshops on topics they wish to share.
• Past and planned workshop topics
  • Basic server setup and security
  • Basic Docker
  • Docker Compose, security and environment variables

Project: Carmanah CRM

Effective solutions

• Organization: Carmanah Technologies
• 2012, 6 years
• Custom case management system

• Objective: Implement a new case management system, in Salesforce, to reduce the work load and increase the quality of service delivered by the technical support staff.

• Outcomes:
  • Enable staffing levels to be reduced from ten to three people while allowing for nearly twice the amount of business.
  • Requirements gathering, design and architect solutions
  • Develop web interfaces using Salesforce Lightening component frameworks and VisualForce pages
  • Develop back-end services with APEX (a Java like language)
  • Salesforce cloud computing software as a service (Saas) development
  • Data migrations, extractions, purges,
• Tech Stack: Salesforce (certified Salesforce Administrator), JavaScript, Lightening Force, APEX (Apex is a strongly typed, object-oriented programming language), Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
• Reference available on request

Project: Carmanah Solar CTO

Continuously deliver value that affects the top and bottom line

• Organization: Carmanah Technologies
• 2009, 4 years
• Custom solar product configure to order (CTO) for integration with Salesforce CRM and Oracle EBS Configurator.
• Outcomes:
  • Technical architect and developer of custom configure to order (CTO), solar product simulation and Salesforce CRM as integral components of a larger corporate transition to Oracle EBS with iStore, Configurator.
  • The ERP initiative came in on time and on budget. The simulator was a critical components to enable selling solar powered product
  • Working closely with all levels of the organization Bryan designed and built software applications that made it easy for end customers to purchase and use solar products. Unlike most products, solar products are location and configuration dependent. To remove any barriers the buyer might have to purchase these products it is necessary to provide easy to use selection tools that are based on sophisticated solar product simulation and web services
  • Built a configure to order (CTO) product validation engine and technical specification generator which produced detailed project specification documents based on custom product configurations.
  • Mentored several coop students.
  • Strong emphasis on incremental delivery of value.

• Tech Stack: Java, Eclipse, SWT, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, JSON, PHP, RESTful APIs, Git, Hg, Debian, Apache, Tomcat, OSGi, Drupal, WordPress, PHP, Salesforce, APEX, B2B, CRM, ERP, CTO, Oracle, SQL, ETL, Mobile responsive design,

• See below for references by Andy Canty, Trevor Hurst, Dave Kichler and Cathy Lim

Project: Carmanah satellite monitoring system

Solid products that are easy to use based on listening to stakeholders

• Organization: Carmanah Technologies
• Global satellite monitoring system for marine solar powered lanterns.
• 2013, 1.5 years
• Global satellite monitoring system for marine solar powered lanterns.
• Outcomes:
  • Designed and developed a global satellite monitoring system including micro web services, as well as, front end web application with user access management services.
• Tech Stack: Java, Eclipse, SWT, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, JSON, PHP, RESTful APIs, Git, Hg, Debian, Apache, Tomcat, OSGi, Drupal, WordPress, PHP, Salesforce, APEX, B2B, CRM, ERP, CTO, Oracle, SQL, ETL, Mobile responsive design,

Project: IBM

Agile, continuous delivery, early containerization

• Organization: IBM (Formerly PureEdge Technologies)
• 2004, 5 years
• WYSIWYG XForms Designer
• Outcomes:
  • Working with Java, in Eclipse RCP, developed software for users to build XFDL eForms.
  • Member of Agile team that provided design and development of the IBM WYSIWYG XForms Designer

• Tech Stack: Java, Eclipse, OSGi, JSP, JSTL, RESTful APIs, XML, MVC, SWT, SQL, Agile, Scrum, Continuous development, Hg, I18N (managed translation process with international team).

• See below for references by Upkar Lidder

Project: PML – Energy Management System

Versatile, resourceful

• Organization: Power Measurement Ltd (PML) (now Schneider Electric)
• 1996, 5 years
• Energy Management System
• Outcomes:
  • Application development providing components of the PML flagship energy management system
  • Embedded software development with a specialty on serial and TCP communications systems
• Tech Stack: Visual Studio, C++, C, CVS, MVC, Object Oriented, SQL

Project: PML – CRM

Efficiency, reduce the work the user needs to do

• Organization: Power Measurement Ltd (now Schneider Electric)
• 2002, 3 years
• Customer service issue management system
• Outcomes:
  • Built software to automate handling of incoming and outgoing email (Microsoft Exchange/Outlook) with the company’s CRM (onyx)
  • Technical team building and training.
• Tech Stack: SQL, Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, Visual Basic, .NET, C#

Project: Coop – Mainframe application refactoring

• Organization: Ministry of Forests
• 1991, 4 months
• Objectives: This is a very old and small project yet it demonstrates previous exposure and working with a legacy system. It also demonstrates Bryan’s enjoyment in finding creative solutions that provide value.
• Outcomes:
  • The mainframe application software was limited to seven character variable names. As a coop student Bryan was hired to manually located and changed several hundred of these variables.
  • Showed self initiative and learned the mainframe’s scripting language.
  • Implemented a process to automate the refactoring.
  • Ensured the renaming process was completely accurate
  • Reduced the time to implement from the budgeted three months to a few weeks.