Industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in full-stack web development. Proficient in all layers of the traditional MVC framework architecture. Capable of crafting SQL queries, working with model classes (with or without ORMs), and delivering data through controllers to the final view layer.
I strongly believe in thoroughly understanding business requirements upfront and building pragmatic, “good-enough” solutions tailored to the scope. To effectively manage constant change, I advocate for rapid prototyping and early end-user feedback to minimize disconnects between expectations and implementation.
This approach has consistently helped teams I’ve worked with identify and eliminate unnecessary features, allowing greater focus on what truly matters.
Experienced leader of small development teams, responsible for facilitating retrospectives and breaking down high-level project goals into weekly iteration plans.
While I’m well-versed in traditional Agile ceremonies, I favor a pragmatic, flexible approach that prioritizes team cohesion and consistent delivery over strict adherence to methodology.
Proponent of Continuous Development, with experience integrating unit tests, code coverage reports, code quality tools, and vulnerability scans to maintain a high standard of software quality. Functional tests and smoke testing have also been key components of my process, helping ensure application stability and minimize regressions. I've also worked in project environments with zero-downtime deployments with multi-stage release cycles along with feature flags to ensure latest changes are delivered with backwards-compatibility. Lastly, post-release health is a priority through usage of heartbeats, site-monitoring, along with any relevant third-party performance analytics to ensure maximum uptime as well as contention mitigation.
My latest development efforts have primarily involved Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL backends. I’m also familiar with Node.js, React, and NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB.
Additionally, I've been tasked with third-party API integration—both consuming and exposing data. I’m comfortable working with authentication-based API requests, ingesting external data sources, and building RESTful API endpoints with auto-generated Swagger-style documentation.
Core Competencies
- Ruby
- SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
- MVC Frameworks
- Ruby on Rails
- HAML/LESS style templates
- HTML
- Javascript / Typescript
- CSS
- SASS
- TailwindCSS and similar
- TDD
- BDD (Selenium/Capybara/Cucumber)
- Version Control git
- Docker
Technical Familiarity
Additional Goodies
You get all of the above skills plus the following bonus items!
- Fully conversant in Spanish. Se habla español.
- Portrait photographer. Can take the next great headshot for the company website.