Ruby on Rails architect. 23 years in software, 18 in Rails. I work on backend systems that have outgrown their original design — and increasingly, on adding AI to products that already work.
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- 🧑🤝🧑 Certified Project Management Professional
- ♟️ Avid chess player (challenge me!) and amateur powerlifter 💪
- 👨👧👧 Husband and father of 2 beautiful daughters
- Ruby — Rails 2.x–8.x, Sinatra
- Data — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Async — Sidekiq, background processing at scale
- AI/LLM — OpenAI, Anthropic, RAG, vector search, agentic workflows
- Front-end — Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus), React, Bootstrap, Tailwind
- Infra — AWS, Docker, Heroku, GitHub Actions
- Testing — RSpec, Minitest
Full-stack, but I prefer the back end.
Contributor to Ruby libraries including moxml (unified XML API over Nokogiri, Oga and Ox) and the Uploadcare Ruby and Rails API clients.
Team building and tech screening · planning, resource and quality management · performance monitoring and reporting
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