Senior engineer with 10+ years in Rails

⚒️ 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!