
Ruby Developer at Brightbox
United Kingdom

Ruby Developer at Brightbox
United Kingdom
Company Details:
Technical excellence, rapid development, fantastic communications and great service.
Technical Details:
Commercial Ruby and Ruby on Rails experience dating back to 2005.
Experienced and highly talented software developer; with knowledge of a variety of development environments (Delphi, C++, .Net, Java, Smalltalk and Ruby on Rails).
Strong interest in human factors, user interface design and the details of making complex technical systems easy to understand.
Excellent written communication skills and able to explain complicated technical details in non-technical language to clients, customers and end-users.
Examples of some of my open source projects are available via my "Working with Rails" profile - http://workingwithrails.com/person/8382-rahoul-baruah
Ruby, Ruby on Rails (since 2005)
Microsoft Sql Server (since 2000)
Borland Delphi (since 1996)
Java (since 1998)
.Net (since 2004)
MySql (since 2005)
(Computer Software industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Website development - building an affiliate sales site that takes custom product XML feeds and presents them within a highly usable interface: http://www.bestcarhire.co.uk/
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Website development and maintenance for the company website that manages company information, news, blog posts as well as job announcements and a database of candidates. http://www.interimpartners.com/
(Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
Building a brochure site that links to the company back-office system to keep an up-to-date list of products and variants. http://www.bowers.co.uk/ http://www.bowersmetrology.com/ and http://www.moore-and-wright.com/
(Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
Software development consultancy, custom software development, web development and design.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
2007 — Present (2 years)
Developing the Brightbox public site - with payment and order processing and affiliate sales
(Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2009 (2 years)
Building a Ruby on Rails media application
(Computer Software industry)
2009 — 2009 (less than a year)
Maintaining and developing the MPG membership site
(Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2007 (9 years)
(Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2007 (9 years)
Development and Project Management role (including becoming Company Technical Director for some time) amongst ID's many child companies.
Requirements Gathering, Business Analysis, Delphi Development, Microsoft Sql Server development, .Net and Ruby on Rails development, design and implementation of processes and methodologies, team leader and User Interface designer.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1996 — July 1998 (1 year 11 months)
Delphi Development, Requirements Gathering, Database Development
BSc (hons) , Cognitive Science , 1992 — 1995
Degree course including: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Evolutionary Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Philosophy and Linguistics
1985 — 1992