Kamal Hasan Hood

Sapphire Dev Group was founded as a natural progression from decades of experience creating best in class software applications. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with satellite offices in India and beyond we are a scalable team of talented developers ready to build solutions that run your business better.

• Working with an extended international team of developers I am able to tackle larger projects at scale while still keeping costs down for the client.
• Complete creation, rebuilding and rebranding of production ready web apps to best in breed, thoroughly vetted tech stack.
• 24/7 Mantainance of cloud infrastructure. Monitoring and configuration of network security. Expert level DevOps both in the cloud (i.e. AWS) and private corporate networks.

Groupsite is an established SaaS collaboration application with thousands of paying customers. I was the Chief Architect leading a talented team of developers, UI/UX designers, DevOps and marketing specialists from concept to a successful launch of a new app.

• Saved over 30% in web hosting and DevOps costs after migrating from decades-old cloud services to new Amazon AWS architecture (EC2, Docker, Redis, Nginx, ELB, SES, RDS)
• Complete rebranding, marketing refresh, upgrade and migration of all front and backend systems
• Dramatic increase in target market traffic, keyword search and position with SEO Optimization and UTM Tracking
• Migrated Ruby on Rails from v1 to v5.2. Complete rewrite of the aging codebase using a highly vetted stack. Frontend UI overhaul using Vue 3, Stimulus, ES6 Javascript, Rails, Webpack.

I managed all technical projects for IFC including app development, Systems Administration, networking, DevOps and security. My position transitioned into full time development of their in-house financial CRM.

• Built and launched core CRM app used by all employees daily, responsible for managing customers and processing over $20 million annual revenue. (Angular JS, Ruby on Rails, Docker, React)
• Oversaw purchasing of over $100k in hardware and software licensing. Secured low cost, long term vendor contracts.
• Doubled the efficiency of customer pipeline with custom DocuSign API integration for eSignatures
• Live incoming sales leads feed using Google Adwords API integration and web hooks. These new customer leads were then added to the pipeline and converted into deals.
• Advanced Business Analytics dashboards and reports using minimalist design. Complex financial analysis, mathematical modeling and projections. (Accrual, Deferred Gains, Assignments Receivable, etc.)

I managed all technical needs for TRMG including transitioning them from a legacy in-house database to a publicly available web application for a dramatic increase in efficiency and communications between customers and mobile employees in the field.

• 2x - 3x increase in business after app launch. Increased efficiency allowing guides in-the-field to submit reports and timesheets. Publicly available app allowed market expansion into new states and territories.
• Primary business app used for scheduling thousands of tours, track millions in revenue, manage timesheets, send template emails and invoice employees. (Angular JS, Ruby on Rails, Docker)

Chief Architect, Tech Lead and developer of custom Process Manufacturing Application and UI. The app tracks product from its point of purchase through its manufacturing, packaging and distribution stages.

• Processed over $50 million dollars of bulk product, with security checks and employee productivity tracking.
• Inventory tracking over $30 million in annual sales. Deployed and maintained Microsoft Retail Management System for 7 storefronts.
• Created custom Membership CRM with ID card printing for the Green Medicine Group. ID cards used scannable barcodes to protect and identify over 25,000 members.
• Hiring and management of employees and consultants
• Visualized, designed and implemented a new buying, weighing, inventory and sales business process.
• Purchasing of new hardware/software solutions and ongoing support. In charge of network security, integrity and backup policies.
• Established key business contracts with custom software developers, VARs and credit card merchant banks. Trained employees and managers in system use and policy.