Go, Ruby, Python, C Web and Software Development

About Me

I'm a software developer who has been designing, building, configuring, tuning, deploying, and maintaining *NIX based servers and web applications using C, Java, Python, Ruby, and most recently using Go.

I built my first server for money in 1995 written in C, running on FreeBSD 2.x. It was a set of CGI scripts which drove a database-powered radio station website. I've worked on much larger backend systems and web applications since then in Java, Python, Ruby, and now I'm converting critical parts of a large Ruby on Rails 3.2 codebase to Go's Revel with great success. It's been so successful, in fact, that I will be going into maintenance mode so I have part-time availability to work on other projects. See Availability section below.

Availability

I will be available (as of Monday September 23, 2013) up to 20 hours per week to work on your Ruby on Rails, Go or a greenfield project.

Capabilities

Below is a quick list of what I could do for you:

• Building a fresh web application or REST API for your specific needs using Go/Revel.
• Migrating critical parts of your Ruby/Rails or Python/Django web apps to a language/runtime/framework that can utilize multi-core servers better, e.g. Go/Revel.
• Creating from scratch, updating, maintaining configuration management of servers in Chef and/or Puppet
• Adding functionality to your Ruby on Rails or Sinatra web app
• Adding custom instrumentation for application metrics gathering in your Ruby, Rails, Go, or Python application (New Relic, Librato, ErrPlane)
• Automating deployment or making deployments more efficient (using Capistrano, Vlad The Deployer, Fabric, etc.)
• Fixing bugs in your Ruby on Rails or Sinatra web app
• Optimizing your web asset serving (images, CSS, Javascript, etc.)
• Automating your web asset pipeline compression and building
• Adding functionality to your Ember.js, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, jQuery web apps (client-side)

While my core skills are on the Go, Ruby, Python, and C backends, I am fully capable of working on maintaining CSS, Javascript (Ember, Knockout, Angular, jQuery), and automating web asset distributions on CDNs.

Contact

Email me gorubydev@gmail.com to find out how I could assist your software project.

Timezones

I reside near Seattle, WA (USA) which is on the Pacific timezone. However, I have worked on Eastern and Central US timezone business hours before for previous clients without any problem.

Compensation

I accept Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), and US dollar (USD) as a form of compensation for my services.