# Sebastian Royer

> Full stack web/mobile developer building data driven tech

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sebastianroyer

Full stack web developer with a passion for data-focused design.  Experience in JavaScript using React/Redux and a ReactNative. Over 10 years of experience in client facing roles across the technology/software and hospitality industries. Highly skilled in project and product management, client relations. 

Technical Skills: SQL, MySQL, SQLite, JavaScript, React, Redux, CSS, HTML5, ReactNative

Reach out to me via email or LinkedIn to discuss tech, projects or career opportunities!
james.sebastian.royer@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Junior Software Engineer @ Futureloop
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area
An intensive training program designed to equip New Yorkers with the skills necessary to launch careers in web development. This program includes three months of intensive, full-time on-campus training, including classes/lectures, individual, pair and group programming projects, code challenges, presentations and more.

• Studied a variety of web development languages, frameworks, and libraries in-depth, including Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, React/Redux, SQL, ActiveRecord, Git, HTML, CSS

• Collaborated on project teams to develop and present a variety of web-based applications and build web development skills and efficiency, including:

Janx Chat 
A simple, real time, web-enabled chat app
+ Connected WebSockets channels to deliver messages to multiple web clients in real time 
+ Designed Rails API to deliver customized content to multiple json endpoints via http and ws
+ Built React component structure to display user and message information instantaneously

Flatwords Crossword 
An interactive crossword web app inspired by The New York Times  
+ Created single page application using Rails and Javascript, enabling both persistence and dynamic interaction
+ Built a responsive UI using CSS-Grid and vanilla JavaScript to highlight crossword hints based on user input 
+ Implemented server side authorization to allow users to sign in and persist game state

### Project Manager @ BlueMatrix
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Product Development  -  Financial Research Emailer

---Researched and updated free product user database, analyzed user activity in order to develop 	promising sales prospects and generate conversation starters. (MYSQL, Excel)
---Designed and implemented process to gather feedback from prospects, deliver in timely manner to 	development team and management.  (Emails, Call Scripts, Webex, Tracking Documents)
---Created client facing documentation for new product
---Communicated with over 400 firms worldwide over 4 months.
---Researched and proposed pricing for product based on current market and generated immediate 
	client interest.

Project Management  -  Financial Research Readership Dashboard

---Designed process for client on-boarding from first sales contact to full use and ongoing maintenance
---Minimized setup and maintenance costs by standardizing communication between development partners and clients
---Initiated and communicated regular bug reporting, testing and development release schedule for developers and clients (Google Docs)

### Entitlement Analyst @ BlueMatrix
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Technical Customer Support  -  Research Distribution Platform
 
---Responsible for 800 active client institutions worldwide accounting for industry's largest single 	source 	of financial research publishing by volume
---12 months no escalation of client issues, introduced multiple communication standards to minimize 	workload, setup and trained 20+ new clients, led global support team and trained new support 	personnel.

Data Analysis  -  Financial Research Readership Dashboard

---Developed and applied research system to clean database of ~20k firms in industry-wide database
---Trained two new data cleaning team members
---Tested and provided weekly feedback for development of data cleaning interface
---Researched and proposed Bayesian approach to data cleaning as cost effective alternative to manual process


## Education
### B.S. in Economics
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010

### Software Development
Flatiron School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Diploma in Visual and Performing Arts
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Jan 2002 – Jan 2005


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sebastianroyer
- Website: https://medium.com/@sebastianroyer
- GitHub: https://github.com/walkingalchemy

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Last updated: 2026-03-20