Weapons of choice
- Agile Development, BDD, Kanban, Scrum, Responsive Design
- Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Python, C++
- Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, Middleman
- Active Admin, Sidekiq, RSpec, FactoryGirl, Capybara, jQuery, Underscore.js, ...
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Memcached
- Heroku, AWS (EC2, Route 53, CloudFront, S3), DigitalOcean, Ansible, Puppet, Vagrant, Nginx, Apache httpd, Varnish, Puma, Phusion Passenger, Jenkins
- Trello, Pivotal Tracker, Google Analytics, New Relic, NodePing, Bugsnag, Papertrail
- RubyMine, Atom, Photoshop, Git
- OS X, Linux, Windows
- MacBook Air
Weapons in assessment
- Elixir, CouchDB, PhoneGap, Illustrator
Work history
- Senior Software Engineer at Abe.ai
6 months; Orlando, Florida, USA; - Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at IZEA
8 months; Orlando, Florida, USA; - Lead Engineer at Switcher.ie
6 months; Dublin, Ireland; remotely from Germany - Consultant at Otto Group
3 months; Hamburg, Germany - Consultant at Switcher.ie
5 months; Dublin, Ireland; remotely from Germany - Lead Engineer at Switcher.ie
1 year 1 month; Dublin, Ireland; last 10 months remotely from Germany - Software Engineer at Switcher.ie
6 months; Dublin, Ireland; - Software Engineer and Scrum Master at BioSolveIT GmbH
10 years; Cologne, Germany; last 2 months remotely from Ireland
Source code examples
- This website. It's build with Middleman and hosted on AWS (Route 53, CloudFront, S3). The design is responsive (mobile first).
- I built the Rack middleware rack-varnish-esi to process Varnish's ESI statements in development environment. We used Varnish and ESI statements to inject reusable HTML parts (e.g. header and footer) into our different applications at Switcher.ie.
- I'm the original author of the Ruby gem ops_gems. I created it while working for the EU-funded Project Open PHACTS.
- One of my public GitHub pull requests.
Spare-time activities
- Eating nonfiction books for lunch (checkout my bookshelf)
- Listening to This American Life
- Basketball (watching and playing)
- Freeletics, P90X (let's say it's a love-hate relationship)
You can also download my resume.
If you want to get in touch, feel free to email me.
