Client Work

Audi Special Offer Administrator

Concepted and built an admin tool for users to create special offers for the support team. The interface is designed to feel like a desktop application that dealers would feel comfortable with by making heavy use of the jQuery framework and javascript. Work done through Factory Design Labs.

Audi Inventory Management System

Managing all of Audi's car inventory for the United States and Canada. The IMS system is responsible for aggregating each dealers inventory information, normalizing it for display on AudiUSA, and passing it along to any third party vendors such as Cars.com, Edmunds, etc. Work done through Factory Design Labs.

Blipsnips

Implemented various UI improvements like Facebook integration and direct linking to the Blipsnips video player and viewing pages. Work was done through Dojo4.

Oakley OMatter

Built a custom content management system (CMS) for Oakley to train its retail employees through flash-based training sessions. Work done through Factory Design Labs.

Electricity Untamed

For the launch of the Audi e-tron supercar, we built a data aggregation tool that monitors trends on a variety of popular social networking tools. We were responsible for filtering out thousands of entries to return only relevant campaign information for the client and Flash microsite. Work done through Factory Design Labs.

LikeMe

LikeMe is a lifestyle recommendation engine that utilizes the social aspects of our culture to generate recommendations based on your local tastes. It is similar to Yelp!, but will take your recommendations from your home city (ie. Denver) and provide recommendations in other cities (ie. Chicago). Work done through Factory Design Labs.
         

Projects

Mongo Machine

Provides Hosted MongoDB and data management solutions primarily focused on cloud based web applications. Allowing customers to forget about their data requirements and focus on designing their applications.

Taken With

A mashup site that takes items from popular camera review sites and finds the latest Flickr images using that camera hardware. Since Flickr does not index EXIF information on new or less-than-popular cameras, Taken With was created to provide this much desired feature.

Refactor Me

Presenting daily code snippets from the development community (primarily Ruby) from a collection of user submissions and open source projects to help users gain recognition for writing "good code".

eval(code)

A platform for posting my useful tips, advice, and presentation slides to the public.
     

Open Source

PivotalTracker.rb

A Ruby gem that provides an ActiveRecord-style interface for the Pivotal Tracker API.

Stale_Fish

StaleFish is a utility for storing web requests as fixtures, faking web requests, and ensuring fixtures stay fresh by checking request at periodic intervals. It works at a global level, without modifying code or writing extensive stubs.

Sinatra::Warden

A Sinatra framework module that provides authentication for your Sinatra application through Warden middleware.
     

Who is Overstuffed Gorilla?

Overstuffed Gorilla (OG) is the brainchild of Justin Smestad and was created with the goal of strictly creating web applications that push the envelope of what is possible. Our focus is to develop the best application for a particular audience, whether it's an OG product, client work, or for the open source community. We strive to set the bar high and recognize that collaboration will only push the limits of our imagination and ultimately improve execution.

Stream and Network

2012.05.20
10:50 pm
jsmestad commented on issue 12337 on mxcl/homebrew
2012.05.16
05:54 pm
jsmestad pushed to master at jsmestad/.pair.io
2012.05.16
05:49 pm
jsmestad pushed to master at jsmestad/.pair.io
2012.05.16
05:49 pm
jsmestad pushed to master at jsmestad/.pair.io
2012.05.16
05:22 pm
jsmestad pushed to master at jsmestad/.pair.io
2012.05.14
10:17 pm
jsmestad started watching kneath/kss
2012.05.09
11:08 pm
jsmestad opened issue 35 on Locale/localeapp
2012.05.07
08:09 pm
jsmestad pushed to master at jsmestad/.pair.io
2012.05.07
05:06 pm
jsmestad started watching codegram/spinach
2012.05.02
05:13 pm
jsmestad commented on issue 373 on github/hubot-scripts

Availability and Contact

Overstuffed Gorilla is available to work on any project that is looking for technical excellence and innovation.

If you think that your project or idea is a good fit, please send us an email.

justin@overstuffedgorilla.com