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Since 1994, Chip Castle has been honing his craft of web
& software development, working with a wide variety of
systems and tools. Currently, Chip focuses his efforts using
Unix and Ruby on Rails.
NYU School of Medicine
For well over a decade, Chip assisted the
Radiology Department of NYU School of
Medicine with building, customizing, hosting
and maintenance of their web-based
scheduling software written using
Perl on
a Linux server.
This software was used for
managing time-slots for 4 MRI Magnet units
and the associated billing with each of
their research protocols.
For Skyo, Chip assisted development
efforts of a large Ruby on
Rails codebase
over the course of several years.
Large strides were made to help refine
Git
branching workflow, code deployment and
code review through using Github Pull
Requests and establishing coding
conventions.
Other noteworthy accomplishments include
reducing code complexity, bug squashing,
communicating best practices for code
refactoring, and customizing the Jenkins
Continuous Integration (CI) system,
eventually migrating to Semaphore, another
popular CI cloud service.
Impact
Plastics was in need of an Asset
tracking application to help manage the
repairs of their large inventory of waste
containers. Chip delivered by building
a hybrid app that supported barcode
scanning for identifying the containers,
geolocation capabilities to support
address lookup and map integration, and
the ability to associate photos with
individual container repairs.
The app was built for the web and
iOS using Meteor,
Javascript (ES2015) and
React, backed by MongoDB
on a Linux server. The Bin
Tracker app is currently available for free in the
AppStore for all Impact Plastics customers.
Early in his career, Chip had the good
fortune to be a part of Bent Media,
one of the leading web design agencies in
the south. This allowed him the opportunity
to work on great sites such as Tabasco ®, Oreck vacuums
and The
Neville Brothers, using his skills in
Perl/CGI programming,
UNIX ® systems
administration and
HTML/CSSmarkup.
In 2014 Pure
Charity asked Chip to assist
them with various Systems Administration
and DevOps services for a several of their
their Linux-based servers. In addition
to spinning up numerous servers, Chip also
advised on best practices for writing
Ruby on Rails most
efficiently, as well as how to best test that
code through Test-Driven Development (TDD)
practices using the RSpec
and Capybara testing tools.
CoffeeCup
Software
are the creators of an extremely popular
HTML Editor which has been one of the best
in the market for many years. Chip has
assisted them with writing web
applications in Perl and
PHP for
projects associated with both
Tucows
and
Blue
Domino.