Rory Eckel
A passionate software developer with experience in building web applications using modern technologies.
Computer Science (B.S.) & Mathematics (Minor)
Texas Tech University
- GPA: 3.54 / 4.0
- Dean's List: Spring 2020, President's List: Fall 2020, Spring & Fall 2021
Summer Research Semester Abroad
University College Dublin through Arcadia University
- GPA: 4.0
- Researched feasibility of a four-node Raspberry Pi cluster to create a “mini supercomputer” with the OpenMPI library and container technologies
- Measured power efficiency, floating operations per second using custom Docker image based on Linpack
Full Stack Web Developer
FundView
- Main contributor in uplifting the legacy ASP .NET web application from ASP .NET 4.8 to ASP .NET Core 8.0 and transitioning from MVC UI to their new Angular client (2 year+ ongoing project)
- Helped resolve real-time concurrency conflict resolution with SignalR
- Worked with payment processor APIs to resolve issues in FastGovPay
- Worked with third party vendors to resolve import issues in Municipal Court
- Shared technical knowledge with peers and reviewed code, often rapidly deployed production fixes and observed logs to diagnose issues
- Main developer behind the new Purchase Orders module that integrates with existing Accounts Payable and General Ledger budgeting systems
Research Assistant
Texas Tech University
- Worked with Dr. Yuanlin Zhang and a team of fellow researchers to write a formal publication studying the use of answer-set programming in middle-school curriculum
Intern
NASA Johnson Space Center through HUNCH
- Finalist contestant in a NASA HUNCH (High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware) software challenge
- Designed and implemented two separate projects: C# Windows Forms and iOS Xamarin apps to track the International Space Station (ISS)
- Designed and implemented a full-stack Python web app with Flask for judges