Hire director / personal Ruby on Rails developers in Canada

I am a passionate technical expert, software craftsman, entrepreneur and mentor. I offer hands on experience in solving business problems, making software, and building engineer- ing teams that make software. I analyze business needs and take on the responsibility of ensuring strategically significant business results. I practice, implement and lead using proven software engineering techniques to ensure quality, accelerated delivery of working software.

Full stack software developer with over 20 years experience in designing, developing, testing and delivering software solutions for desktop, web and mobile platforms. Most recent position included upgrading MVP application to Rails 8/Turbo/Stimulus with OpenAI based knowledge integration. Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with end users. Applies active listening and a collaborative approach to have a thorough understanding of what is required to develop appropriate solutions. Experienced in setting up and managing Unix production environments for deployed products. Experience maintaining and upgrading legacy rails stacks and changing processes to keep systems up to date. Health care experience including FHIR and EPR systems. Strong experience in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby Interested in Erlang/Elixir

What makes me unique as a developer is the blend of purpose, adaptability, and real-world impact that drives my work. I didn’t get into software development simply to build cool apps — I started coding to solve problems that matter to people. From streamlining administrative systems for local government in Zimbabwe to creating an online marketplace that helps small businesses sell car parts more effectively, my projects are always rooted in tangible value and usability. One of my recent accomplishments is developing a digital change-of-use permit system for Harare City Council using Ruby on Rails. What makes this special isn’t just the tech stack — it’s the fact that I took a bureaucratic, paper-heavy process and transformed it into something efficient, trackable, and accessible. It’s a small but meaningful contribution toward digital transformation in a context where it's needed most. I’m passionate about building platforms that empower communities, particularly in underserved markets. Whether it’s launching PartsToGo, a growing car parts marketplace in Zimbabwe, or conceptualizing platforms like TendersZimbabwe, I love taking on the kind of challenges where impact matters more than hype. I bring not only the technical skills — full-stack development, systems thinking, clean and maintainable code — but also a strong sense of empathy and purpose to every line I write. I thrive where others may hesitate: limited resources, unclear paths, and bold ideas. My strength lies in turning vision into product, especially when the goal is to make life easier, more efficient, and more just for real people.

After bootstrapping and exiting a successful Rails SaaS as both principal engineer and CTO, I decided to focus back on my passion for engineering and architecture. I joined a remote-only startup building a new product with the goal of using the traditional Rails paradigms along with tried and tested technology to quickly get a comprehensive product to market. That "keep it simple" approach got the product into the hands of some of the most recognizable brands in the world. Feature development turned into performance and growth engineering, again, using the same mentality of finding the simplest most effective approach. I am an excellent generalist with experience in most traditional Rails stacks from backend to frontend and able to easily adapt to new technologies (but only where warranted!) I enjoy the challenge of a fast paced startup world of executing on ideas and providing solutions for customers problems with quick deployment and iterative improvements.

Senior software developer with over 22 years of experience building mobile and web apps, with over 12 years building on Rails. To me Rails is more than just a software framework, it's also a development philosophy. The Rails principles like convention over configuration, separation of concerns, keeping it simple, and don't repeat yourself, help create cleaner and more scaleable projects. I'm big advocate for self documenting code, not reinventing the wheel, keeping things consistent, and designing with constraints, always striving for writing very readable and maintainable code. I also like to follow best practises including using trusted gems like Devise for authentication and Cancancan for authorization, and as well as new frameworks like Stimulus, Hotwire and StimulusReflex.

I love working with Rails, so much that I’ve worked with it for over 10 years now :)

Hi there, I discovered Rails before it was mainstream and have been in love with it ever since. I've now been doing Rails development for over 20 years and worked in many industries including banking, health care, parks and recreation, travel and real estate among others.

I've run my 1-person agency since 2006. Through my agency, I've engaged with many companies as engineering staff augmentation, helping teams ship features, clean up tech debt, train juniors, etc. I've worked with both product companies as well as agencies. When I'm not working with a client, I love bootstrapping my own projects. This year (2024) I've spent some time on "small bets", for which I've solo launched 3 completely to market. I'm hoping to complete a 4th before year end. At the end of 2023, I completed a 7 year near-full-time contract for a company in the HIPAA / digital health space, for which I was the original developer for their product. This product went on to earn millions of dollars in profit. Along with being the original developer, I helped train and onboard the rest of their engineering team in the best practices of Ruby, web, backend, etc. I'm incredibly active in the Ruby community, and you'd often find me working on one of my passion projects or assisting newcomers and other developers in the Ruby ecosystem. My skills don't stop just at Rails - I'm proficient in many other technologies and am capable of learning new ones. I aim to please and enjoy delivering on high expectations. I can be often found working on home improvements or in the kitchen (I love baking bread!).

Multiple careers - started development in 2004 - and by 2005 I was on Rails. Ruby/Rails has been my goto tech since then. M.Sc. degree(s) in multiple tech domains. Over the years, I've had my own business ventures, led tech teams, mentored young-lings and peers, delved in ML and AI and still curious to this day. I'm passionate about AI and the new-wave of AI-capable solutions. I'm creating my first few RAG solutions. I can delve deep and talk business at the same time.

I’m a full-stack developer with over 10 years of experience, focused on building SaaS applications. I work mostly with Ruby on Rails, React and Postgres, and I’ve handled everything from backend to deployment to analytics. I’ve built and maintained apps like HTTPScout, an uptime monitor, doing everything from writing the code to setting up the infrastructure. I enjoy taking on big projects, and I’m used to figuring things out as I go. I’ve run my own small ventures, worked as an engineering manager at PagerDuty, and understand both the technical and business sides of software. I like clean, simple solutions that work. I’m also experienced with DevOps and prefer keeping things well-documented. If you need someone who can build and launch a project end-to-end, I'd love to chat.