Seeking Work: Mostly Remote (based in the US, will travel to project kickoff / milestone meetings if preferred) Ruby on Rails Engineer, using Ruby since 2002

Seeking Work: Mostly Remote (based in the US, will travel to project kickoff / milestone meetings if preferred) Ruby on Rails Engineer, using Ruby since 2002 and Rails since 2005. Expert in SQL (primarily PostgreSQL and MySQL/RDS.) Strong NoSQL: mostly Cassandra (wrote the cassandra-cql driver), some Mongo and Riak. Strong "HTML5" expertise having made extensive use HTML5 & XHTML, jQuery, WebSocket, and pure JS. Expert Unix operational skills using Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD on real and virtualized platforms. Can use nginx or apache as easily as I can use heroku. Github: https://github.com/kreynolds https://github.com/kreynolds Blog: http://rubyscale.com/blog/tech_notes/ http://rubyscale.com/blog/tech_notes/ Experienced working with existing teams. Can offer strategic and tactical guidance, and can also do head-down coding. Comfortable executing large, complex tasks. One recent client coined the term "man-people" to describe his opinion that despite being one person, I was doing the work of five men. Prefer fixed-price/fixed-scope contract work, but daily rates are available. contact: hello@rubyscale.com