Versatile fullstack dev, loves writing tests and following TDD. Likes to do boring stuff

8+ Years of experience | Ruby on Rails specialist | Passionate about testing

I've studied electronic engineering, specialty in computer science and sub specialty in physics. I am a self-taught full stack developer.

I've learned to code on QBasic when I was a kid, at the end of the 90's, and I've been working in software development since 2014, most of the time working in Ruby on Rails, the sum adds 8+ years of experience in RoR.

Since the first time I've started working with Rails I've worked following a TDD approach. My experience tells me that's the best way to avoid bugs. I've used RSpec all along my journey.

My latest discovery is the best way to enrich my vocabulary in any programming language is by reading other people's code. That's the reason why I'm hunting issues in github, I've made several contributions to many different open source projects. My last PR is a fix for RSpec::Support::Differ class: I've found a bug when you compare two different hash objects and the expected value contains an "anything" fuzzy matcher, it adds noise to the output of the differ. My PR fixes that issue: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-support/pull/599

I have noticed the web is always consuming more and more memory ram. That's the reason why I've focused my efforts on my previous jobs to optimize slow web pages and optimize as much SQL as I can. I helped my last client to reduce in half the memory ram consumption measured on his Heroku metrics. These optimizations helped him to save money on Heroku.

I am learning Rust and I have built many tools like rg_explorer to help me find what I need in big projects. I want to become proficient in Rust because I have hope in the future WASM may become something common in webapps, because I think that may be a good candidate to reduce the amount of memory ram consumed by web browsers.

I am a versatile software engineer because I've used many programming languages in the past: Python, Rust, Node.js (including React.js and Vue.js).

I have found many of the activities mentioned above are really boring for many people. It's odd that I enjoy doing them so much. That's why I think I like to do boring stuff...