I am a skilled Ruby developer, specialising in designing and coding web solutions.

I collaborate with many UK government departments and startups, providing support especially on Ruby/Ruby on Rails projects – which are used extensively by the UK government and many startups.

I provide my services through my company, Acrobyte Ltd.

Projects

I have collaborated on many mid-sized and large Web projects. Some of the most significant are:

UK Government:

• LAA (Legal Aid Agency)
• HMRC (Trade Tariff project)
• Ministry of Justice
• Department of Education

Startups:

• Funding Circle: UK-based peer-to-peer lending company
• Smart Pension: online pensions and investment
• Workshare (acquired by Litera): document sharing and collaboration

How I can help

If you are a recruiter (internal or external), or a manager that wants to grow their team, you can hire me as a Software Engineer contractor.

Contact me and tell me about the needs of your customer's project.

I usually work in a two-week sprint agile style, focusing on delivering the features that give the most value to the users.

I also focus on training junior developers on Ruby technologies. There is a need for more Ruby developers. There are so many projects to maintain and ideas to realise.

That's why I am happy to train junior developers who know a language like Java or Python and need to transition to Ruby to support their companies and challenge themselves to learn a new language and framework.

Ruby is often considered a simple language. But there is much more than knowing the syntax.
To mention the essential skills of a junior Ruby developer, they must have:

• good Ruby language knowledge
• basics of Object Oriented Programming
• basics of Ruby on Rails
• RESTful APIs
• relational databases and ActiveRecord
• basics of Test Driven Development

Location

I am based in Reading (UK), working from Thames Valley Park.

Let’s Talk About Your Ruby Needs

Just send me an email at

and I’ll reply within a day.