About

Creative, passionate and friendly programmer with a wide skill set, strong programming and design skills, backed by 13 years of experience developing software professionally, 10 with Ruby. Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical colleagues. I enjoy working in or leading a multidisciplinary team.

Based in Bristol, England but working with businesses around the world.

I specialise in creating websites and web applications using:

  • Ruby on Rails, many associated libraries, and with tests
  • Relational databases (Postgres and MySQL)
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • HTML, CSS, SASS, ERB, HAML and SLIM
  • Javascript (Hotwire, Stimulus, Webpacker, React etc.)
  • Git, Github, Jira, Trello, Slack, Mac OS X
  • Product and design thinking, data analysis, experimentation
  • I’ve deployed (and maintained) applications and systems to AWS, Heroku, custom Linux servers running on Linode and used a variety of deployment tools including Capistrano.

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