Competences
Pragmatic and cooperative, enterprising autodidact, service oriented, endlessly focused on craftsmanship, absorber and emitter of technical knowledge, organizer of Amsterdam Ruby Community. Host/MC of the 2019 edition of EuRuKo, the European Ruby conference, Host/MC of NoRuKo(2020), the social distance safe EuRuKo replacement.Experience
Strategic Software advice, QC, and code contributor
- Aligning team members and business
- Architecting deliverables, and Quality control of the built artefacts
- Growing the effectiveness of team members
- Code contribution
Strategic Software advice and development
- Ensuring all software, dependencies, hosting are up to date, and fully maintained
- Development of key features, removing the cruft out of journal administrator's working days
- Rearchitect and implement bank-transaction based retailer matching
- Architect and implement invoicing of retailers through networks
- Coaching and onboarding colleagues
- Implement full and fuzzy search of a number of sanction lists
- Migrate customer data from scattered backends into a single tennant-aware database
- Owner
- Consulting with regards to tech leadership, architecture or potentially contributions
- Aiding the executive team in growing the org's engineering capabilities
- Helping the product team prioritise features and tech debt consistently
- Mentoring the team towards tiny (potentially) shippable increments over big-bang implementations
- Coaching founders, teachers and teaching assistants to creating a remote first Coding Bootcamp
- Transforming strategy into teaching plans for the Fullstack Course and Frontend Course
- Teaching the Minicourse
- Building collaboration tools on wetransfer.com and growing its Public API
- Mentoring, coaching, upskilling, and reviewing team members
- Interviewing, assessing and onboarding new colleagues
- (Re-)connecting WeTransfer to multiple Amsterdam tech meetups
Terraform, Kubernetes, Ruby, Rails, AWS, MySQL(rds), NodeJS(lambdas)
- Developing course materials for, and teaching the Academy and Taste Of Code
- Mentoring, evaluating and selecting out students
- Mentoring alumni from junior towards senior attitude
- Mentoring and guiding junior team members into teaching, and growing them into seasoned developers
ES5, ES2015, ES2016, ES2017, NodeJS, TypeScript, Ruby, Rails, Postgresql
- Lecturing Ruby, Rails, and Database design
- Debugging students' learning skills
- Helping developing the students' learning skills
- Examining students, challenging them to dive deeper or broaden knowledge
Ruby, SQLite, Postgresql, Rails(v 5.0), numerous Ruby gems
- Test driving calculators for mortgage cash flows, (dutch) tax redemption, and comparing all alternatives
- Creating and managing containerized infrastructure for development and production environment
- Introducing the start-up to agility
Ruby (no Rails), Docker, Elasticsearch, RSpec, Grape
- Developing and maintaining of a multitude of Rails frontend and backend systems
- Helping the development team practicing agility
- Organizing and leading tech lunches for any interested colleague
- Engaging quality improvement in the team, with a focus on long term progress and maintaining pace.
Rails, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery
- Developing, maintaining, upgrading of multiple stock-photo websites
Ruby, Rails, Postgresql, Capistrano, Elasticsearch, RSpec