Senior Software Engineer at PatientsLikeMe, Inc.
Greater Boston Area
Senior Software Engineer at PatientsLikeMe, Inc.
Greater Boston Area
A Ruby on Rails developer with a background in Java and C++. Extensive experience in domain-driven object-oriented analysis & design, data modeling, unit and functional testing, and building and mentoring technically proficient teams.
Created and launched Twackit, "a truly unique use of Twitter".
Helped launch http://HealthDataRights.org and http://Quest-for-Life.org.
(Privately Held; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
PatientsLikeMe is a social networking start-up that helps patients with chronic, life-changing conditions live better. Using Ruby on Rails exclusively for over 2 years to build a wide variety of features and improve system performance and scalability.
Extracted several open source plugins (http://github.com/patientslikeme) and wrote two articles for Dr. Dobb's Journal on the topics of OpenID and performance in Rails applications.