The resume format is so awful. Resumes should be: What I'm interested in, what I'm good at, and why I'm good at it.
— Chris Wanstrath (@defunkt) March 24, 2012
I am happy where I am right now, but I'm always interested in at least talking if I seem like a good fit for a position.
What I'm Good At
- Ruby/Rails Development
- Ruby and Rails are my go-to technologies, and I've worked with them long enough to understand them deeply. However, I am familiar with other web technologies and always try to choose the best tool for the job. I am writing a book about how to upgrade from Rails 3 to Rails 4.
- High-traffic Applications
- I have helped build applications that handle many hundreds of requests per second, deploy them, and monitor them.
- Analytics on "Big Data"
- I have deployed and managed Hadoop clusters, but have also employed other technologies like Redis and HBase to store and analyze large amounts of data. I have basic knowledge of technologies like Riak and Cassandra, though I have not deployed them.
Why I'm Good At It
- Open Source
- I try to regularly contribute to open source. Most of the libraries I have created myself are available on my GitHub page (under "sources"). I have also contributed to projects such as Shoes, JRuby, RSpec, Rails and Sunspot.
- Always Learning
- I enjoy learning new things. I subscribe to Practicing Ruby and Destroy All Software. I am always reading a book or few: I try to keep goodreads up-to-date. I like to talk about books I've read or are reading.
- Test-Driven Development
- I started out just testing, but have more recently learned how to use tests to drive good design. I like to talk about how it's helped me become a better developer.
What I'm Interested In
I'm not necessarily good at these things yet.
- Distributed, concurrent, fault-tolerant systems
- Frameworks and languages like celluloid and Erlang are on my radar.
- Design
- I love the command line: monospaced fonts, vim, and maybe a curses interface here and there. Unfortunately, I think this puts me at a disadvantage when developing web applications that have a front-end. I would like to get better at both the technology and art involved in web design. I've added a few books on these topics to my wish list.
Contact
Additional Details
I am happy to provide additional details on my education, work experience, etc... after getting in touch.