Work

I currently work in the Ruby Developer Experience team at Shopify, Toronto.

Past Work

• Engineering Lead at Financeit, Toronto (2016 – 2020)

From 2010 to 2016 I ran an independent software consultancy in London, UK. Clients included:

• CDP (with Made) (Rails) (2016)
• The People’s Operator (Rails) (2015)
• HSBC Global Connections (with We Are Friday) (Rails) (2015)
• Blacklane (Rails, Sinatra) (2014)
• NotOnTheHighStreet.com (Rails) (2013)
• HowAreYou (Rails, Sinatra) (2012)
• BBC – London 2012 Olympics (as Developer-in-Test) (2012)
• BBC – Weather (as Developer-in-Test) (2011)
• Chromaroma (with Dynamic50) (Rails) (2010)

Personal Projects

• GetThingsRight (Rails) (2018)
• KitchenNumbers (Rails) (2015)
• techradar.io (Rails) (2014)
• Continuous Quality (Writing) (2014)

Open Source

• codeclimate-engine-rb (Ruby)
• techradar.io (Ruby, Rails)
• do_by (Ruby)
• capybara-page-object (Ruby)

Talks

• Improving Code Design With Automated Checks (Rails Meetup, Shopify, Toronto, June 2019)
• Programmers Don’t Read Books (but they should) (Financeit, Toronto, November 2018)
• Vim Everywhere (Vim Meetup Group, London, May 2015)
• An i18n Journey (Hashrocket, Chicago, November 2013)
• An Introduction to CoffeeScript (NotOnTheHighStreet, London, April 2013)
• Contributing to Open Source using GitHub (BBC Future Media, London, June 2012)

See my GitHub Activity Feed for other OSS contributions.

Retired Personal Projects

• StreetFoodApp UK (iPhone App - RubyMotion, backend - Rails) (2013)
• TfL Unified REST API (Ruby, Sinatra) (2012)
• Wallpapers320 (iPhone App - Objective-C, backend - Rails) (2010)
• London Journey Planner (iPhone App - Objective-C, backend - Rails) (2009)