Overview

Gender

male

Director, team leader, mentor, sys admin, and builder of web applications great and small, for 25 years. Passionate about testing, efficiency, learning best practices, and improving the human condition by automation.

Familiar with Ruby and Javascript frameworks, old and new, but appreciate Rails and SvelteKit most. Sponsored and recognized by Github in July 2022 as one of 904 developers whose open source code their platform relies on. Engineered solutions for nearly every industry sector. Specialize in migrating legacy systems to modern architectures utilizing principles of BDD, and DDD. Prefer event storming for deriving lexicon of a business domain.

Built world’s first enterprise Rails app running on Windows Server 2k3 & IIS6 + FastCGI w/ SSO (2006). Led massive PHP-to-Rails migrations @ aSmallWorld (2008-9) and BibleGateway (2009-10).
FLOSS Leader and Advocate, hundreds of thousands of projects and companies rely on my open source work.