Web applications
PHP and Laravel apps with real users: intake forms, approvals, reporting dashboards. Documented and handoff-ready.
~/johnrua $ whoami
Full stack developer.
Lead by day, shipper by habit.
A decade of PHP and JavaScript in production. Lead Developer at Kingsborough Community College: campus platforms, REST integrations, ERP with SAML single sign-on.
10+years shipping
$1.5M+grants won with my code
2017CUNY IT Innovation Award
1college-wide intranet
What I do
// three servicesIntegrations & SSO
REST plumbing between systems that don't speak, and SAML single sign-on wired into enterprise identity.
Automating the manual
Spreadsheet-and-email workflows become software. Fewer errors, faster cycles, numbers you can put in a grant application.
Stack
// depth, five dots maxBackend
PHP
REST APIs
OOP & patterns
PowerShell
Python
Laravel
Frontend
HTML5 & CSS
JavaScript
jQuery & AJAX
SASS / SCSS
Bootstrap
React / Vue
Data & ops
MySQL
MSSQL
SAML / SSO
Git
Linux admin
MongoDB
Education
// degrees & certifications
2021
B.S. Computer Science
CUNY School of Professional Studies
2014
A.S. Liberal Arts
Kingsborough Community College
2023
Google IT Automation with Python
Certificate · Google
2022
Full Stack Web Development
Certificate · freeCodeCamp
2021
Professional Scrum Master I
Certificate · Scrum.org
Let's build something
that outlives the spreadsheet.
Freelance availability open. Tell me what's manual and I'll tell you what it takes.
- [email protected]
- /in/john-rua
- GITHUB
- @jrua89
- BASED
- New York City