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Lead dev specialising in clean, maintainable code and keeping tech debt low

I'm a full-stack Rails developer with experience building robust, scalable products, whether as a Ruby monolith or with TypeScript/ReactJS frontends. I've been working with Rails for over 10 years (since version 3.x) and have specialised in creating and maintaining codebases that are easy for teams to read, understand, and maintain. Key to those goals are: using standardised code styles (ensuring RuboCop and the team's practices are perfectly aligned) writing well-structured, easy-to-understand and fast tests constructive and collaborative code reviews ensuring documentation, from git histories to READMEs and other materials (online and offline) records useful, meaningful information that can be easily kept up to date and in sync with any code changes I've recently been adding GraphQL to my skill set, which also includes PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis and other languages (Swift, PHP, JavaScript, and more). On the front end, I have experience with both Rails' native toolset and ReactJS, Next.js, and React Native. I also have experience with platform-native toolsets, such as SwiftUI, to deliver applications that feel intrinsically part of the user’s mobile experience. I've worked on projects of various sizes, from scheduling and booking software for a major tech training company to systems that enable TV distributors to sell thousands of hours of programming worldwide. Ideally, I'm looking to work on products with which I can feel personally invested – an exciting product or tech-for-good project would definitely suit me better than a fintech role.

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Senior engineer with 10+ years in Rails

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⚒️ Experienced Ruby / Rails Engineer — 🇬🇧 English Native — 🙋‍♂️ Available March 2025 — 👇 Pitch Approaching 15 years as a professional software engineer and plenty more as a hobbyist, my purpose is to ship useful and worthwhile software. I can lead your team to launch your new MVP or bring your suffering app back to life, with a razor-sharp focus on generating value. I’ll ask the stupid questions that need to be asked and work closely with you to ensure time is spent delivering what your customers need, without the fluff they don’t. I've enjoyed working with all sorts of people in all sorts of companies, building all sorts of things. That means I'm capable of working on a broad variety of problems — from rapidly building MVPs in a tiny team to iterating on planet-scale microservices within a large organisation. I probably won't be able to patent a new algorithm to reduce load times by 0.05% across the board. But I will be able to help you find and remediate bottlenecks that are demonstrably causing your customers to bounce. I won't disappear into a cave for two weeks with a feature specification and come back with a perfect implementation. I'd rather iterate and communicate; in two weeks the entire feature may have been scrapped in favour of a different value-add. Let's build the right things well, rather than the wrong things perfectly. And I won't sit idly by if the team is clearly unhappy and underperforming. Whether I need to take the reins myself or inform others, everyone deserves to work in a positive environment, conducive to their happiness. Anything less produces bad software. So that's roughly what I do. Have a nice day!

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