Working With Rails

Objective To build new professional relationships abroad and gain experience in agile development best practices

Profile Very good in thinking in abstract terms. Strong entrepreneurial drive and business skills. Working professionally with Rails for almost 3 years. In the last 2 years I’ve been mainly focused on my own long-term startup business project, while doing freelance jobs aside

Professional focus Currently focused on data mining, social graphs crawling and smushing, graph analysis, trust networks, search engines

Personal information Born in 1983 in Rome, Italy. Worked in seven countries, free to travel

Languages (spoken and written) Excellent: English, Italian. Intermediate: German, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish. Basic: Nepali (only spoken)

Sebastiano Scròfina’s Specialties:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, XHTML, Linux, OS X, Git, Capistrano, Lucene/Ferret, FreeRADIUS, Mechanize, Nokogiri, Hpricot, RSpec, TestUnit, Cucumber, Mocha, Mathematica

Interested in Agile methodologies, Extreme programming, Scrum, TDD, BDD

Other skills: Adwords, Web analytics, SEM, E-commerce, Excellent communication, motivation and organizational skills

Experience Cofounder, Kaaaki London 2009 – present

Through the development of a technology that allows people to measure, store and transfer trust better than traditional money does, our mission is to outmarket debt-money and the scarcity economy.

Consultant, FreStyl Inc. New York/Rome 2009 – present

I’m currently involved in helping designing and developing a prototype for this US-based internet startup

Ruby on Rails developer, Litillisland Milan, Italy 2009

I crawled the Facebook public social graph and found a way to extract its Icelandic subsection. Then wrote a custom graph-traversing algorithm to find the shortest path between Icelanders

Social data mining, Mikamai Srl Milan, Italy 2009

I was studying how to scrape and monetize GGG (Giant Global Graph) data at Mikamai, Italy’s leading Ruby on Rails agency. In the meanwhile I organized real-world events related to the topic (see blog.mikamai.com)

Ruby on Rails developer, Fiiki Rome, Italy 2008

I wrote a web crawler for the Couchsurfing.org website, developed a specific search-engine based on Lucene technology and created a specific algorithm to find hospitality faster than with Couchsurfing’s own search engine (see www.fiiki.com)

Teacher, Ruby and Ruby on Rails workshop Rome, Italy 2008

Teacher at a Ruby and Ruby on Rails 3-days intensive workshop (see www.railsfordummies.com)

Ruby on Rails developer, Ptumpa.com Bologna, Italy 2008

I’ve worked on the development of Ptumpa, a former travel sharing web application (was at www.ptumpa.com, now partly available at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http:// www.ptumpa.com)

Ruby on Rails developer, Kiiiwi Rome 2007 – present

Using Ruby and Rails I developed the backend for a p2p payment system to exchange IOUs and money through trusted paths (www.kiiiwi.com)

Ruby on Rails developer, Byte Works Sistemi Srl Roma, Italy 2007

Freelance contract job in a networking company. I developed a backend billing system, its web frontend and a website for a VoIP service. The billing system, 100% Ruby, was built on top of FreeRADIUS data

Ruby on Rails developer, Grandmamail Roma, Italy 2007

Developed an “email for moms” web application, my first Ruby on Rails project. Gained experience with ActionMailer (www.grandmamail.com)

Personal interests: GGG, Giant Global Graph, abundance economics, trust networks, recommender systems, virtual currencies, heterodox economists, trust, singularity, posthumanism, banking, subjective logic, reputation