Position: Full Stack Developer at Lavanda

Full stack Ruby on Rails & Angular developer

I joined as a senior Ruby contractor building out Lavanda's short letting property platform in Ruby on Rails. Also worked with the Angular 4 based frontend. Solving load optimisation problems and calendaring integration problems.

Experiences

Writing geo location optimisations in Ruby

There were several slow endpoints and page loads that needed performance improvements that I solved by optimising data reads using Active Record's query syntax

Writing and documenting the REST API

Documenting and refactoring the API using Postman to test, liasing with the lead frontend developer for requirements.

Pairing with and mentoring the team

I paired with and advised junior team members to improve their knowledge of Ruby and web development skills with Rails. Used Sandi Metz book: Practical Object Oriented Programming With Ruby as a basis for some of this work.

Reviewing code

Conducting code review to ensure that high quality code with proper test coverage was being written

Third party calendar integration

Paired with another team member to deliver a highly requested calendar integration with data provided with by a partner, involved writing complex logic in Ruby that would handle syncronising the calendar.

Skills

• Ruby On Rails
• Angular JS
• Test Driven Development
• Github
• Heroku Platform
• Continuous Integration
• 3rd Party Integrations