Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Portland, Oregon Area
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- Sr. Lead Developer at MOG.com
- Past
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- Author of the Ruby Cookbook at O’Reilly Media
- Contractor (Self-employed)
- Systems Administrator and Emerging Technologies Developer at Clarity Innovations
- Education
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- Reed College
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Lucas Carlson’s Summary
A Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming expert with a proven track record of success. I have intimate knowledge of scalable web infrastructure including share-nothing architecture, database federation, caching techniques, and distributed programming paradigms.
Lucas Carlson’s Specialties:
Proficient in Ruby, PHP, OCaml, Erlang, and JavaScript. Working knowledge of Perl, Python, Java, C, C++, Objective-C, shell, Io, Lisp, and Befunge
Knowledgeable with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Mnesia databases
Used Lucene and Hyper Estraier full text indexers
Preferred desktop environment: Mac OS X. Preferred server platform: FreeBSD. Most used server platform: Linux.
Written HTML by hand since 1996 and CSS since 1998
Lucas Carlson’s Experience
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Sr. Lead Developer
MOG.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Lead the development of MOG, a web 2.0, music-based, popular social networking application, from the ground up with Ruby on Rails and MySQL. I wrote the majority of the code base, created an architecture that could smoothly scale up as the community grew, and hired, lead and cultivated a technical team. MOG.com is currently one of the five most popular Ruby on Rails websites on the web.
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Author of the Ruby Cookbook
O’Reilly Media
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
In 2005, just at the brink of Ruby’s popularity in the United States, O’Reilly asked me, as a representative of the Ruby and Ruby on Rails community, to co-author the Ruby Cookbook. It is the single largest collection of printed Ruby documentation in the world today.
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Contractor
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Internet industry)
February 2004 — February 2006 (2 years 1 month)
As a prominent Ruby on Rails contractor, I brought many startups from conception to a full working product. Responsibilities included infrastructure, architecture planning, coding, deployment, systems administration, and database optimization. These companies include PrintPromotion.com, a full AJAX online print shop, PrefPass.com, a similar concept to OpenID in implementation except it is used for user preferences instead of authentication, a website that O’Reilly Media used to let authors write their books in a wiki structure, and MeasureMap.com which was so successful that it was sold to Google.
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Systems Administrator and Emerging Technologies Developer
Clarity Innovations
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2002 — January 2006 (4 years 1 month)
As a Linux system administrator and PHP web developer, I architected and programmed new web applications for use in online learning. I also created an entire web hosting provider infrastructure focused on educators called TeacherHosting.com.
Lucas Carlson’s Education
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Reed College
Physics, August 2001 — June 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Created ReedieJournals.com, one of the first websites to give all students at a college a free blog.
Additional Information
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Lucas Carlson’s Groups:
Speaker at InnoTech 2007, Portland Ruby User Group, Portland Perl Mongers, CodeCamp 2005, CodeCamp 2006, and FOSCON
Contributed code to Ruby on Rails, RedCloth, and Ruby’s YouTube API implementation, Ruby
