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As a seasoned software engineer with a strong background in Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript, I have a proven track record of delivering high-performance solutions. With experience in building blazing-fast storefronts and improving memory and CPU efficiency, I excel in creating scalable and resilient systems.

Hi there 👋 My name is Ben. Ive been a Software Engineer since 2015 and a hobbyist programmer since 2005. Professionally I have primarily done full stack web development in Ruby on Rails and I am passionate about working iteratively and shipping high quality, tested, maintainable code. I am a big fan of the Hotwire front-end. I believe it provides the perfect mix of power and flexibility. I find that most modern products require developers to build full stack features quickly and ship in small iterative chunks, regularly reacting to user feedback. Rails, literally "Turbo"-charged with Turbolinks and Stimulus fit perfectly in this world.

I am a seasoned Rails dev with a diverse background in communication, product design and programming. As a freelancer, I am always looking for new opportunities! I've been in the Rails ecosystem for over 6 years. I've worked solo and in small teams on both BE and FE heady stacks for +10 production apps, with legacy code or on greenfield projects and feel very comfortable with the framework. I'm used to working with SMBs and love to help entrepreneurs solve business problems with a customer-centric approach. I'm a UI perfectionist and enjoy working on satisfying interfaces and making them run smoothly in the background. ⌨️ Tech skills: - Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Rspec - Javascript / Stimulus.js / Turbo / React / AlpineJS - PostgreSQL / Redis / Sidekiq / Goodjob - Heroku / Github / AWS - Responsive Design / PWA - View components / Tailwind / Bootstrap 💡 Soft skills - Multilingual (French, English, Spanish, Portuguese) - Experienced in product management - Team player and curious person - Independent and reliable worker

Senior Software Engineer – Technical Leader – Principal Engineer As a Senior Software Engineer with 16+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails web development and scaling, I bring a wealth of technical expertise to the table. My hands-on and collaborative leadership style has proven effective in managing projects and teams for more than 12 years. I have a strong track record in fast-paced startups, working closely with the CTO and across multiple R&D teams. Self-driven and responsible, I excel at taking ownership of the technical vision and roadmap. I am experienced in working autonomously, with full accountability for complex projects and applications. My focus is on building reliable, future-proof systems, and I have experience maintaining complex applications in regulated environments with high requirements for data security and reliability. I bring a passion for innovation and problem-solving to early startups, helping them grow by introducing practical solutions and structure. I am able to adapt to change and make informed technology investments that align with company goals. I follow agile methodologies and value collaboration. I view planning and whiteboarding sessions as opportunities to share knowledge and build trust with the team through honest retrospectives in a safe environment. In addition to my technical skills, I have a passion for mentorship and enjoy coaching and training junior developers. I am active in the Ruby community, a maintainer of open source projects, and a top contributor on Stack Overflow with over 2,000 answered Ruby and Rails questions.

There's an inflection point in every startup, where you've got your MVP and some initial customers, and now you need to scale everything. Not just the performance of your application, but entire features to support a new kind of larger customer. You need to grow the team, not just engineering, but product and customer support, and also incorporate the tools to support them. This is where I'm in my groove, and at my most effective. I've grown teams from 3 to 50+, improved performance while scaling to 100x the load, and designed and built features from the ground up in an iterative and agile manner to minimize time-to-delivery while maximizing flexibility for future work. I have over 20 years' experience as a "web application" developer, in a variety of languages and technologies. I've been a Rails developer since there was a Rails, releasing my first app on 0.11 in 2005, and have kept up with it since. I'm comfortable working at entire levels of the app stack, from tweaking drop shadows in SCSS to optimizing database queries and debugging stack traces. I have the experience to know when to crank out some quick and dirty code vs take the time to architect a foundation that will scale and provide a platform upon which the team can build stable features for years. I work with other teams/departments within the company and customers to work to figure out optimal solutions to problems, gathering and balancing the various tradeoffs involved. I also really enjoying pairing with other developers, since we can both learn something new, as well as mentoring and leveling up the juniors. I'm involved in the various Ruby communities, have spoken at Rubyconf, and frequent the local Boulder Ruby group since its beginning. I've been involved with major Ruby open-source development in the past, like Merb and DataMapper, and am still an active contributor to smaller projects such as Dry-rb. If you're an early stage startup that has found product/market fit, and needs someone to scale both your product and your team, then I'd be a great choice to help you out.

Senior software engineer with over 10 years of experience as a remote freelancer. My educational background includes an MSc 2:1 in computer science and applied mathematics engineering from ENSEEIHT (Toulouse, France) in 2009. I then worked for 2 years as a frontend developer at a startup in London and transitioned to backend work in 2013. Specializing in web application development, I have undertaken projects for companies such as Carrefour, L'Oréal, Cocolis, Epicery, and Alerti. My work has encompassed backend development, data engineering, code and database performance improvement, e-commerce platform customization and logistics, payment system integration, API creation, crawlers, technical documentation, and testing. Passionate about data manipulation and rendering them to users and stakeholders in a more meaningful way, I am currently expanding my skills in AI/ML and neural networks through CNRS fidle formation to explore how I could apply and offer these services to my clients. Recent milestones and accomplishments include: Migrating the payment system from Adyen to Stripe for Epicery Migrating the frontend from Vue to Hotwire for Epicery Developing a geolocalized matching algorithm between carriers and packages for Cocolis Fields of expertise: E-commerce solutions with Solidus/Spree open-source framework Data processing and visualization with Business Intelligence tools for reporting Integration of payment system providers Integration of third-party APIs Database design and performance optimization Frontend performance optimization Crawling and scraping Technical audits Testing, documentation, CI/CD tools Experience with the following tools: Languages: Ruby, Typescript, JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby on Rails Platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Render, Heroku Frontend: React, Vue.js, Hotwire, Angular, HTML/CSS, Alpine.js, HTMX, Astro Payment providers: Stripe, Mangopay, Adyen, PayPal Data viz: Amazon QuickSight, Superset, Tableau Backend tools: Solidus open-source e-commerce solution, New Relic, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, etc. CI/CD Tools: GitHub CI, CircleCI Fluent in French, English, Spanish.

👋 Hello! I create art with various mediums; music, poetry, graphic design, and technology. Ruby on Rails is my go-to web development framework! 💪🏽 I like my Rails mono, Javascript and HTML vanilla, my stylesheets SCSS-y, and my Turbo Hotwired (as soon as I really learn Hotwire). As a self-taught, Full-Stack Developer with a deep understanding of the entire web development process, I love seeing ideas go from concept to products and services. We might be a bad fit if you're looking for a computer scientist. Sorry, mate.

How I can help you I am a Rails and PostgreSQL expert. That means that I am very familiar doing things the rails way. There are things that you can only learn from being in a career for so fifteen years. I call it hidden knowledge. At some point you develop a sixth sense for when and how deep to test, which refactors are necessary, a set of practices for handling ActiveRecord associations. Passions I believe that an expert developer is a unique asset to a company as they can drastically change its course. I like working with startups, and I have 15 years of tips, tricks, techniques, strategies from a technical perspective as well as an business/operational perspective. Developer origin story I've always had a love for this craft. I started building robots, then teaching middle and high schoolers how to build and program robots, while managing my own self hosted networks and distro-hopping linux flavors Unique skills that make me awesome I've written custom PostgreSQL extensions You'll notice with me that I am very quick on the keyboard, and between the well placed lame jokes, combined surgically precise problem solving, I have consistently told me that I am a pleasure to work with. Core Skills ⌨️ Tech skills: - Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Rspec - Javascript / Stimulus.js / Turbo / React / AlpineJS - PostgreSQL / Redis / Sidekiq / Goodjob - Heroku / Github / AWS - View components / Tailwind / Bootstrap Startups I built and sold directmailer.io, a direct mailer marketing platform that provides modern marketing conveniences to a legacy channel. Adheres to compliance within certain verticals, and provides deep integration like you're used to in SEO. I was hired to build the core infrastructure for floridahomesteadcheck.com, a property tax analysis tool that guarantees the lowest property taxes for Florida residents. You! You have an idea worth building

I have been building Ruby on Rails applications since 2005. That means I've worked with (built, upgraded, maintained, etc.) production apps from the early days of Rails 2 and 3 to the latest and greatest Rails 7. I have written extensively about Rails, spoken at conferences about Rails, and trained others on how to be effective with Rails. And in addition to doing the hands on work, I've also lead and grown teams of Rails developers through coaching and mentorship. But I might not be a good fit for your project. Why? Well, having lived through all the trends, fads, and short-lived experiments that have hit the Rails community over the last twenty years, I have settled on one guiding principle. Pragmatism. I won't waste your time with clever code, strongly-held personal preferences, or experimenting with new shiny toys. I won't waste my time adopting your re-invented wheels, deviations from Rails conventions, or overly complex solutions to simple problems. No. Instead I will help you use Rails in the simplest and most effective way possible to achieve the outcomes you need. So, if you need to get from "old, complex, and fragile" to "simple, reliable, and modern" and you want to do it in a way that balances cost, risk and timing, let's chat.

Hi, there! I am a collaborative Ruby on Rails Developer with a growth mindset from Brazil. After experiencing the world of entrepreneurship, I found programming again after years away, and this time I got fascinated like never before, so I decided to put everything I was doing aside and dived into this world. First I started some online courses, and then decided to go for a presential bootcamp at Le Wagon Programming School, where I had a quite good performance. I also have a Production Engineering Bachelor Degree at Universidade Federal Fluminense, a prestigious university in Brazil. Currently working at Gig Wage, a fintech company that provides payroll solutions for gig workers and contractors (10/2022- Present). Thank you for reading until here, and feel free to contact me any time for any reason.