Erik Gassler

My side business used for branding my personal projects through. The first project through this business was a console game titled Cosmos, released for the Xbox 360 in December of 2008. Technologies used for this project included C# and Microsoft's XNA framework. Other early-days projects included various websites and desktop applications I developed to help with my game development, including an image editor I created so I could create a special layered image format and a 3d modeling tool I created to fix issues I was seeing from other 3d modeling tools, both of which also used C# and the XNA framework. I am currently working on a number of tools and services with the goal of providing developers easier and faster workflows and tooling to develop, manage, and update their software projects.

Young startup company working on Crypto transaction services. Let go about 6 weeks in due to differing opinions on development standards and workflows, which I had been transparent about during the entire interview process and they were initially understanding about – see third bullet below. - Added and updated scripts and documentation while working through figuring out how to get legacy project working in a Windows environment. - Worked a couple of tech-debt user story items for a legacy project to help me get acquainted with AWS and team standards, tech stack, and workflows. - Date represents full-time employment. But my interview process involved work for a few months prior to employment as a part-time contractor working on a new backend service to be part of securely transacting crypto transactions. Worked primarily with one of the founders and another contractor for this project, with a review period towards the end with some of the other developers and team manager.

Part of the OneVoice team working on the Interactive Analytics Platform team that develops analytics technologies to help assess call quality for Microsoft's support call-centers. Initially hired into Contract position. Hired on full-time about 8 months later as a level 60 Software Engineer with management acknowledging my Senior level but they did not have any Senior positions available at that time. 14 months later promoted to level 61 Software Engineer 2 after my complaints that I was not promoted to Senior level when Senior positions became available and by this time I had proven my technical skills. Peers and management acknowledged my technical ability was without question at a Senior level, but management refused to promote me to a Senior level because I care only about engineering great software and not playing company politics.