Ross Hettel
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Bachelors in Computer Science - NIU, Class of 2012
Job History
Acorns
July 2018 - June 2020Senior Software Engineer
Working with Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL at scale
Hologram
May 2016 - April 2018Software Engineer
Worked with PHP and Python and C++/Arduino libraries
HighGround
March 2014 - May 2016Software Engineer
Worked with Node.js, Angular.js, and MongoDB
edo Interactive
April 2013 - March 2014Software Engineer
Worked with Java, d3.js, and PostgreSQL
Lighthouse Catholic Media
January 2011 - April 2013Software Engineer
Worked with PHP and Symfony, jQuery, and MySQL
Fun Side Projects
Built with Node.js, rebuilt with Ruby on Rails, and the Twilio API, scaled thousands of users
Written about in
The Wall Street Journal,
The Guardian,
Business Insider,
The AV Club, and
Product Hunt
Placeholder image service full of goats
Built with Node.js, and uses Twitter as a crude "database"
A small weather and webcam display for an IBM 4707 monitor I rescued
Built with Angular and forecast.io
Some fun built with d3.js
Contact
ross [at] het [dot] telrosshettel [at] gmail [dot] com