
Ruby and Rails Guru
San Francisco Bay Area

Ruby and Rails Guru
San Francisco Bay Area
I yearn to work with people-centric organizations. I believe that listening to customers and colleagues fosters personal, professional, and profit growth.
Recent APIs:
* CSS & YUI Grids
* HTML & XHTML
* JavaScript, Prototype, & Scriptaculous
* MySQL, PostgreSQL, & SQLite
* RSpec
* Ruby & Rails
Recent Server Software:
* apache2 & nginx
* aptitude & emerge
* bash
* capistrano
* cron
* denyhosts & iptables
* ferret, sphinx, & solr
* memcached
* merb
* mongrel cluster
* monit
* mysqld
* passenger (mod_rails)
* rmagick
* rubygems
* SFTP jails
* ssh & sshd
* starling & workling
Recent Dev Tools:
* Firefox & Safari
* git
* irb
* OmniGraffle
* Pixelmater
* rake
* ScreenFlow
* subversion
* Textmate
* Xcode
Recent OSs:
* Gentoo 1.12.11
* Mac OS X Leopard
* Mac OS X Tiger Server
* Ubunto Gusty 7.10
In-depth knowledge of the design, development, and deployment of dynamic web-based, Ruby on Rails applications
(Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
* Design, develop, & deploy web applications that customers will love to use, built with powerful software that is easy to maintain and scales with business
* http://www.ritirisi.com
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
* Upgraded their internal network from 2 to 14 nodes
* Manage this network remotely, which includes servers, printers, wireless base stations and repeaters, web cams, laptops, and desktops
* Installed and maintain their web and e-mail server which hosts
over 40 sites
* http://www.summitwynds.com/
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2008 — January 2009 (8 months)
* Deployed dozens of Ruby on Rails & Merb web applications that integrate a wide range of services: web, application, & mail servers; database, caching, & searching services; monitoring, scheduling, & custom data processing daemons; source code & user account management
* Managed and monitored 1500+ virtualized, linux-based, web application production and staging servers, juggling multiple high-priority cases simultaneously
* Trained and collaborated with a global, 30-man team of highly skilled engineering professionals
* Delivered high-quality customer support to nearly 400 customers ranging from independents & web 2.0 start-ups to consulting studios & multi-national corporations
* Wrote over 30 internal & customer-facing technology support articles on the company’s complete Ruby on Rails deployment stack
* http://www.engineyard.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)
* Developed a searching layer that extracts criteria from an advanced search UI into ActiveRecord
procedures drastically improving the speed, maintainability, & scalability of the code-base
* Developed a reporting framework with AJAX (Prototype) interactions, integrating with the customized searching framework, and implemented with Presenters, Decorators, and on-the-fly SQL temporary tables. Together, these improvements brought page load times down from 30 minutes to 2 seconds.
* Wrote "code complete" software with a 7-person engineering team using iterative, test-driven development, 2-man code reviews, and in-place Ruby documentation
* http://www.tobi.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — July 2007 (1 year)
* Created dynamic web applications with Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, Lighttpd, Apache
* Was responsible for the training and assimilation of new programmers
* Reengineered the company’s workflow based around the subversion version control system
* Managed the development sandboxes for over 80 web applications on FreeBSD servers
* Configured and maintained productions servers for our web applications
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2006 — July 2007 (8 months)
* Interacted with clients daily, by phone and in person, alleviating fears, designing features, allocating resources, planning milestones, & providing data migration support
* Coordinated the development and training of web 2.0, Ruby on Rails applications for an international, 3-person team of programmers and designers
* http://www.3mediaweb.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)
* Created 25+ dynamic web applications, mostly driven with PHP, MySQL, and Apache
* Integrated our applications with 3rd party software like shopping carts, Paypal merchant services, MS Excel, forums, and newsletter generation tools
(Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 2 months)
* Developed two internal web applications an NSF Engineering Research Center
* Deployed these with PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux
(Computer Games industry)
September 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 7 months)
* Co-founded club with Dan Roy and Nick Rycar.
* While Vice President, membership increased from 2 to 60 (30 regularly active).
* Proposed and helped start course at UMass: “The Computer Science of Multiplayer Games.”
Bachelors in Science , Computer Science , 2000 — 2005
Graduated with a 3.4 cumulative GPA
cycling, hiking, frisbee, chilling, music, movies, inventing I enjoy being warmed by the sun and breathing fresh air.
East Bay Ruby Meet-up
SF Ruby Meet-up
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Harold Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Award Recipient - 2004