About

Creative, passionate and friendly programmer with a wide skill set, strong programming and design skills, backed by 10 years of experience developing software professionally, 7 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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