Caleb Brown

Caleb Brown

Full-stack Engineer

Hello.

My name is Caleb and I am a Director of Technology and Full-stack Engineer in Austin, TX. I build everything from large-scale education, real estate, and foundation websites to small-scale marketing websites for a wide array of clients.

I have over ten years of experience developing in Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, ASP.NET, and PHP and six years of experience leading a team of engineers. Please checkout my portfolio to learn more about the types of projects that I work on.

Technologies I work with.

I enjoy working in many technologies and always keep up with advancements within the technological field. I enjoy finding the right tool to solve challenging problems. Here are some of the languages, frameworks, and platforms I'm currently working with.

  • Front-end
    • HTML5
    • CSS3, Responsive CSS, SASS, Compass, Less
    • JavaScript, React.js, Redux, jQuery, Backbone.js, Underscore, lodash
    • SVG, XML
    • Grunt, Bower
  • Web frameworks
    • Ruby on Rails (3.0+)
    • Django, Django CMS
    • NodeJS
    • Wordpress
    • ASP.NET MVC
  • Systems administration
    • Ubuntu/Linux Servers
    • Ansible
    • Nginx, Apache
    • Supervisor, Passenger, Gunicorn
    • Monit, New Relic
    • Memcached, Redis
    • Tomcat Solr
    • Windows servers/IIS, etc.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    • Simple Storage Service (S3)
    • Simple Email Service (SES)
    • Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
  • Databases
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • SQL Server
  • Software
    • Photoshop, Illustrator
    • Sublime, Nano, Vim
    • Bash, ZSH, Terminal, Vagrant
    • Git, SVN, CVS
  • Services/APIs
    • Google Analytics
    • Google Tag Manager
    • Twitter API
    • Instagram API

Awards

I have made significant contributions to projects that have been recognized for their excellence.

Notable Awards

2016

Webby Awards

Official Honoree / Carnegie Corporation of New York

2014

Webby Awards

Official Honoree : Health / New York Blood Center
Official Honoree : Lifestyle / Sex is Back
Official Honoree : Humor / Comics Kingdom
Official Honoree : Real Estate / 50 North 5th

Communicator Awards

Award of Excellence : Art / National Geographic: Women of Vision
Award of Excellence : Restaurant / Union Square Cafe

2013

Webby Awards

Nominee : Associations / Village Alliance
Official Honoree : Cultural Institutions / Playwrights Horizons
Official Honoree : Government / NYCEDC

OMMA Awards

Finalist : Reference, Education / NYC College Line
Finalist : Youth / Smithsonian Institution / NMAI Infinity of Nations

Communicator Awards

Award of Excellence : Cultural Institutions / Wave Hill
Award of Excellence : Consulting / Hospitality Quotient
Award of Excellence : Professional Services / Hospitality Quotient
Award of Excellence : Real Estate / Two Trees Management
Award of Excellence : Education / Smithsonian NMAI Infinity of Nations

Pixel Awards

Finalist : Music / IND Music Network

W3 Awards

Gold : Non-Profit / New York Blood Center
Gold : Consulting / Coleman Research
Gold : Government / NYC College Line

Interactive Media Awards

Best in Class : B2B / Hospitality Quotient
Best in Class : Restaurant / North End Grill NYC
Best in Class : Restaurant / Union Square Cafe
Best in Class : Kids / Smithsonian Institution, NMAI Infinity of Nations

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

Full list of Awards

Other stuff.

In addition to development, you can often find me in my kitchen in Austin, baking bread using my very own sourdough starter or fresh croissants using one of Tartine's recipes. I also enjoy hanging out with my friends drinking, some spectacular craft beers , or collecting hard to find bourbons.