End Point Team

Our team, headquartered in New York City, has developed, maintained, and hosted ecommerce and other web solutions since its founding in 1995. We combine web application development, database and hosting expertise with understanding clients’ objectives to excel in client satisfaction.

Steph Skardal

Steph Skardal

Web application developer

With End Point since: 2008
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Greensboro area)

Steph has experience in a broad range of web application development. She is an expert in client side technologies such as JavaScript (including jQuery and YUI), CSS, and XML; and server-side technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Spree, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. She has used her skills in commerce solutions, content management system development, and search engine optimization. Before she began web development, she completed her education with research in medical image analysis using C, C++, and Python.

Berkman Center Zone 1: Designed and developed large scale Ruby on Rails file management system. The application integrates Solr faceted search, complex rights and roles management, and sftp user management. Popular gems such as acts-as-taggable-on, carrierwave, and resque are used in this Ruby on Rails 3.1 application.

Paper Source Web To Print: Led development over two-year ongoing project in Interchange customization to allow Paper Source to sell personalized products such as wedding invitations, stationery, and holiday cards. This project integrates Adobe Scene7 to provide personalized product previews.

Piggybak: Developed and released open source ecommerce mountable gem as a Ruby on Rails 3.1 Engine. This gem acts as a mountable ecommerce solution to plug into existing Rails applications.

Web Developer for Gear.com in 2008. Integrated customized plugins and theme for content management system. Completed Omniture site search integration.

Web Developer for AgencyFusion in 2008. Integration, development of mobile template in content management system.

Software Engineer for Backcountry.com from 2007–2008. Frontside development in projects including search engine optimization, multi-site reskin, checkout redesign, site optimization.

MS, Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa.

BS, Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa.

Steph loves spending time in the outdoors. She can be found engaged in activities such as running, rock climbing, telemark skiing, road biking, and hiking with her husband Aleks and her dogs Milton and Roger. Steph also enjoys pet photography in her free time.

Recent Blog Posts By Steph Skardal

Three Things: Rails, JOIN tip, and Responsiveness

May 11, 2012

Here's another entry in my Three Things series, where I share a few small tips I've picked up lately. 1. Rails and Dramas Sometimes I think that since Rails allows you write code efficiently, [a few]... (Three Things: Rails, JOIN tip, and Responsiveness cont.)

RailsConf 2012: What's Next in Rails?

April 26, 2012

I tend to walk away from every RailsConf feeling that there was a trend for each conference. In 2009, I thought the trend was Passenger, in 2010, NoSQL and Rails 3 was all the rage, and in 2011, many o... (RailsConf 2012: What's Next in Rails? cont.)

RailsConf 2012: Day Three

April 25, 2012

It's Day 3 of RailsConf 2012 here in Austin Texas. Check out my posts from Day 1 and Day 2. RailsConf 5k To kick off the day, I ran the low-key RailsConf 5k along the lake here in Austin. I'm glad tha... (RailsConf 2012: Day Three cont.)

RailsConf 2012: Day Two

April 24, 2012

I'm here in Austin for Day 2 of RailsConf 2012. Here's a quick run-down of a few talks I attended today. Read about a couple of sessions I attended on Day 1 here. Let's Make the Web Faster One of the... (RailsConf 2012: Day Two cont.)

RailsConf 2012: Day One

April 23, 2012

Today kicks off the official first day of RailsConf 2012, in Austin, Texas (yesterday RailsConf unofficially kicked off with Ignite Rails). This is my fourth RailsConf, and I've found that I get increa... (RailsConf 2012: Day One cont.)