Working With Rails

I’m a consultant and entrepreneur whom enjoys working with startups who are creative, challenging, and passionate about their idea. I own and operate Calculated Combustion, a Ruby on Rails consulting group. I’m well versed in Ruby, Rails, rSpec, Test Unit, REST, Test Driven Development, as well as the challenges face with starting a company.

I’m an alumni of the SDRuby group and an active member in the Kansas City Ruby User Group. I have also a presented and organized the conferences MerbCamp and BarCamp San Diego

Expertise

• Ruby on Rails, Edge Rails, & Merb (contributor)

• Rspec, Shoulda, & Test Unit

• RESTful Architecture

• MySQL Database, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite

• Mac, Linux (Desktop and Server), Windows

• HTML / XHTML / HTML5, CSS[1-3]

• Unobtrusive JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Prototype

• Apache, Nginx, Passenger, Mongrel, Mongrel Cluster, Ruby Enterprise Edition

• Git, Subversion

• Search (Sphinx, Solr, Lucene)

• Amazon Web Services
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Amazon CloudFront Service (Amazon’s CDN)
  • Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS)

• Agile Development, Scrum, Test Driven Development

              

Portfolio:

http://www.assaydepot.com/

http://www.gumgum.com/

http://www.obsidianportal.com

http://www.doleaf.com

http://www.blissport.com/

http://www.ddsweblink.com/

http://www.mcmillinhomes.com/

http://www.drnikolov.com/

Open Source Contributions

• Textile Editor Helper (maintainer)

• Ruby on Rails (core contributor)

• Merb (core contributor)

• My Github Account