Senior software engineer specialising in Ruby on Rails, with experience building, maintaining and modernising production web applications.
Strong backend focus, with particular experience in application architecture, database performance, background processing, testing and legacy system improvement.
Ruby / Rails
PostgreSQL / MySQL / MariaDB
Redis / Sidekiq
RSpec / Capybara
Docker / Docker Compose
AWS
JavaScript / React
Contributor to Free UK Genealogy, working on the MyopicVicar / FreeREG Rails application.
Contributions include feature development, bug fixes, automated testing, accessibility improvements and maintenance of a large established Rails codebase.
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Ruby on Rails architecture · PostgreSQL performance · application modernisation · API development · testing · Docker · distributed application infrastructure