Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer and Startup Founder
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With 10+ years experience as a Ruby on Rails developer, I have a strong background in designing, developing, and supporting Rails applications.
- Supported web-based student assessment tool used by over 300 colleges and 90,000 users.
- Improved site performance through code optimization
- Integrated third-party API tools, such as payment processing
- Very experienced identifying obscure bugs in large applications.
- Built applications from scratch.
I'm also the founder of GeoPollster, a location-based election game and mobile polling experiment. The startup partnered with Postmedia, Canada's largest newspaper group, for Canada’s 2011 federal election. I collabaroted closely with Postmedia's digitial media team. Resulted in Postmedia winning Gold for Best Use of Social Media at the annual Canadian Online Publishing Awards.