# Ross Degnen

> Senior Software Engineer at Dotmatics

Location: Arvada, Colorado, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rossdegnen

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Dotmatics
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Dotmatics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ BioBright
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Rifiniti
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Boston
- Member of the Front End part of the team that completely rebuilt our companies SaaS product using React, Apollo, Graphql, and Scss, with 100% test coverage using jest and enzyme.
- Collaborated with a DevOps contractor to build an internal dashboard that allows the creation and deletion of EC2 instances running Jupyterlab for use by our data science team. My contribution was building a full stack application utilizing React on the front end, and Node, Koa, TypeScript, and Redis on the backend to run Terraform scripts created by the contractor.
- Did some ETL work using Scala and AWS Kinesis streams.
- Full stack development of features and bug fixes on the now older version of our SaaS product using EmberJS and Ruby-on-Rails.
- Created the initial infrastructure for our data science team on AWS using EC2 and Elastic Map Reduce, after our migration from Linode cloud hosting services.

### Developer in residence @ General Assembly
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boston
- Associate Instructor in General Assembly's full time Web Development Immersive Course
- Responsibilities included preparing and delivering lessons, troubleshooting/debugging students code, evaluating students projects, iterating over material to make sure its up to date and the best it can be.
- Lessons I personally taught were HTML/CSS, Ruby-vs-JavaScript Objects, Ruby-vs-JavaScript Hash Dictionary, jQuery-Ajax-Delete, Rails-Activerecord, and Mongoose-CRUD.
- Material covered in the course includes JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails, Node and Express, Mongo, Postgres, and EmberJS

### Front End Developer @ Sumu
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Did front end development working Primarily in JavaScript and Angular.
- Used Sass and bootstrap for styling.
- Used Jira to assign features and bugs to complete during sprints.

### Contract Developer @ Amalgam
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Helped out with the launch of foraycollective.com
- Dove into code base many thousands of lines long
- Helped make items on site more responsive including youtube embeded videos, modals, forms, etc. 
- Created article pages
- Added needed functionality to the HTML and used a bit of JQuery - Added functionality and style to HTML launch email

### Contract Developer @ Cielo Concepts Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Contract job in which I helped design and build an online invoicing mechanism in NodeJS using ExpressJS, Gulp, Mocha for uniting testing, and wrote api documentation using swagger-ui.

Also began creating a course to teach PatternLab which is a tool used to break down design's and then build them back up again into functioning web apps. For this I used Sass, Photoshop, and Balsamiq.

### Web Development Immersive Student @ General Assembly
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston
Worked with Ruby-on-Rails, Javascript, JQuery, Anguler, AJAX, HTML5, CSS other web development tools


## Education
### Web Development
General Assembly
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### Lesley University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rossdegnen

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Last updated: 2026-03-22