Cal Thixton
EXPERTISE
BIO
Ordered to Chicago by Steve Jobs back in the day and since brought the internet and now doing mostly mobile and migrations with international teams with several apps in the App Store today with backends in the cloud/AWS/GCP. Working from home with the kids nearby. Hosted the first iOS dev camp in the midwest in my living years ago, now bringing the cost of mobile dev down with new frameworks and saas. Saved and deployed first arbitrage trading platform back in the day, Now looking for the next challenge.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Cloud/Mobile Architect
AudrinC Ltd
January 2012 - May 2025
Cloud/Mobile Architect /Project Manager / Embedded Building and publishing mobile apps for markets which might not think a mobile app is a level that they can reach or afford. Perhaps democratizing the mobile app and cloud world might be a better description. Having at times up to a 100 apps in TestFlight for boards and business owners to consider and test from the Sierra Club to Que4 to American College of Surgeons. Take a look at our portfolio. Mostly Wordpress, Android and iOS projects lately. • Design, develop, and maintain WordPress websites, iOS, Android apps, Linux and cloud platforms, security and database administration and recovery. • Customize WordPress themes and plugins to meet project requirements. • Develop custom plugins and functionalities to enhance user experience. • Develop and maintain native iOS applications using Swift and Object-C Westside Children’s Therapy- https://audrinc.com/westsidetherapy.apk https://testflight.apple.com/join/P3cbngeX Alaska's Finest Seafood- https://audrinc.com/afs.apk https://testflight.apple.com/join/GX1Usv89 Healthy Body Dental- https://audrinc.com/hbd.apk https://testflight.apple.com/join/46s1MdU1 Roger Ebert- https://audrinc.com/ebert.apk https://testflight.apple.com/join/2YRq414m Sierra Club- https://audrinc.com/sierraclub.apk https://testflight.apple.com/join/bhT3smBq Pathways https://audrinc.com/pathways.apk https://testflight.apple.com/join/Nqwmrvkt Motion Recruitment https://audrinc.com/motionrecruitment.apk https://testflight.apple.com/join/MtawBj92
Cloud/mobile Architect
3Fams
January 2020 - October 2023
Cloud Architect / Chief Technical Officer (CTO) 01/2020-10/2023 Leading provider of online conferencing, streaming and concert services for celebrities looking for alternative concert revenue sources with VirtualCONS. Duties included design, coding, building and release of mobile, web, terraform and cloud solutions, developing overall business technical model to scale and ease of use with international team of talent to also include crypto currency support with blockchains and managing IaaS and PaaS on AWS and GCP with Flutter, Dart, Swift based apps and DEVOPS, CI/CD, ETL. Full range of celebrity services and ticketing e-commerce based on crypto and public trading using Stripe, Paypal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Wordpress. VirtualCons platform was live within 12mo generating $5m the first year. • Lead daily scrum with international engineering team and stakeholders on agile project • Code, build and release test and production versions of mobile apps and automate tests • Cloud design and build AWS/EC2/S3/RDS and GCP/Postgres. Migrating to AWS Glue. • Manage c-suite expectations and goals and schedules. • Setup and monitor and manage security all platforms. • Explore and manage monitoring, analytics and performance data and tools. • Manage backups across platforms and recovery process. • Integrate business data with professional and executive staff tool systems • Manage secure corporate keys and security • Establish best practices for mobile, web and cloud, full stack. • Review and commission code reviews with third party audits • Manage vendor relationships, streaming/imaging Vonage, CameraX. • Manage cloud, linux and database administration and recovery and release and q/a schedules • Internationalized and localized mobile apps • Build and deploy AWS Device Farm bulk testing and test automation, Selenium, Robot, Bitrise, etc.. • Manage and secure cloud AWS and GCP servers & reviewing security tools like Wiz. • Design, develop, and maintain WordPress websites. • Customize WordPress themes and plugins to meet project requirements. • Develop custom plugins and functionalities to enhance the experience. • Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex technical issues. • Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration and reporting. • Linux administrator & DNS/Bind & IaC. • Develop and maintain native iOS applications using Swift and Object-C • Develop and maintain native Android applications.
EDUCATION
BS CS
University of Oklahoma, Present
Computer Science
PORTFOLIO PROJECTS
AudrinC
Sampling of projects over the years from migrations to mobile to recovery.
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Verified Full Stack Developer
8+ years of experience
Preferred commitment: Full Time
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