Ruby Developer
The Cococoder aka (Delaney Burke)
Why Me?
I am a confident, amiable, and tenacious self educated Ruby developer, with a passion for self improvement and 15 years proven track record in software development on both the Unix/Linux and the Microsoft Windows platform. In my career I have worked for a broad spectrum of clients of ranging from start-ups to multinational across a vast number of industries, including Media, Banking and Healthcare
My eclectic mix of experience and technical skills have given me an insight into what it takes to bring a product, service or concept through the necessary steps to make it a reality and most importantly a success.
Client : **********
A software consultancy company specializing in Telecommunications and IT.
As a Ruby developer in the automation team my role is to use my Ruby skills to build tools and frameworks, enabling the business to be more efficient and deliver a better quality service.
Responsibilities:
- Building web applications using Rails and Sinatra (mostly dashboards , user interfaces and internal tools)
- Automating manual processes by using screen scraping (Nokogiri) and data extraction techniques
- Capturing system requirements using automated testing tools like Cucumber and ThoughtWorks gauge
- Automated testing and verification of applications using a happy, sad and bad test case prioritisation process
- Creating full regression test suites to make sure that new changes to the code do not break existing functionality
- Creating testing and QA environments using Docker containers and LXD
- Implementing continuos delivery pipelines with GoCD
Achievements:
- Implemented an automated CV scanning and data extraction tool which increased revenue 30%
Full Six is Digital Agency which is part of the Havas Group.
Responsible for the Sainsbury's Home Made website.
Responsibilities:
- Implementing new features such as the ability to add recipes to a curated list for later consumption
- Testing the existing and new code using RSpec
- Maintaining the existing code base and RSpec tests suite
- Creating and maintaining a suite of regression tests using Capybara and Steak
- Managing all of my commits in Git using Git flow
- Participating in an Agile scrum based team
- Using UML diagrams to communicate design and architectual decisions
- Using active record and Postgre Sql for object persistence
- Using Coffee script and javascript with JQuery to maintain the dynamic client side elements of the site
Achievements:
- Integrated a custom campaign management rest api
- Created a gem for sanitizing the staging database
- Migrated the current rails 3 application to rails 4
- Fixed the vagrant development environments
- Create a test framework for outside in testing
- Setup a continuous integration environment
Coach in a Box is an innovative company that delivers executive coaching via the telephone and the internet.
The Coach in a Box operating system has been implemented in Ruby on Rails and is hosted on Heroku. The application is covered by a suite of RSpec and Cucumber tests.
Responsibilities:
- Led and managed a team 4 direct reports and 2 external contractors
- Delivering features
- Supported the growth of the internal and external development teams.
- Assigned and managed the workload and priorities of the IT function to be aligned to the business stratergy.
- All system architecture, process and technical direction.
Achievements:
- Implemented an agile software development process which is design and prototype driven
- Handled the migration from Rails 3 to 4
- Encapsulated the whole deployment process as a Ruby GEM, which enabled new members of the team to quickly set up local development environments and deploy the application.
- Initiated the dissemination of the application into a suite of Rails Engines, which enabled us to simplify testing and system maintenance.
- Implemented a micro services platform which utilised DOCKER comntainers.
- Implemented an Enterprise Service Bus called Yaesu utilised NSQ.io and Redis.
- implemented a Ruby on Rails project tracking tool called gatwick which enbled us to manage both budget and tasks.
- Introduced Retrospectives after every iteration
- Implemented a new online product called Twelve Shifts which was 3 tier distributed application consisting of a html/css/Coffee Script single page app talking to a rails api (JSON) and utilising PUBNUB RTC.
- Implemented an in app notification system called Tannoy that allowed us to communicate in realtime with groups of users or individual users about system updates
Scribble Squad, A multi-disciplined team of three, specialising in developing process automation, ETL and web applications using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and Grape.
Client : BSKYB
Sky, a UK telecommunications company.
Responsibilities:
- Building web applications using Rails /Sinatra (mostly dashboards and interfaces and internal tools)
- Building tools and API’s using Sinatra and Rails and a small micro API framework called GRAPE
- Test automation using Capybara for websites and Calabash and Achouci for testing Android and IOS applications
- Mentoring and training the team members on Ruby, Cucumber and BDD
Client: Net a Porter
Net a Porter, an online luxury fashion retailer
Responsibilities:
- Implemented an automated test framework that exercised every aspect of the business process using Cucumber and Capybara
- Mentoring and training the team members on Ruby,Cucumber and Capybara
- Mentoring and training external teams on our test automation framework Ruby , Cucumber and BDD principles
- Building tools and API using Sinatra and rails
Client: BBC - Radio
BBC Radio, BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The BBC radio site was comprised of a front-end user interface written in Html, CSS and Javascript with a PHP backend talking to a number of rest services which were implemented in Java. As part of the Cucumber test automation team.
Responsibilities:
- Help the Business analyst turn their requirements into Gherkins and then implement the Ruby step definitions.
- Automating the user interaction with the website using Capybara
- Using the VCR gem to mock out the external dependencies to the website
- Design and implement a test framework on which the developers are to implement future testing.
Client: Headshift - Nokia Socialiser Project
Headshift, Management Consultants
Worked on the Nokia socialiser project, a social media monitoring tool
Arcacell, A Software Development Consultancy
Responsible for developing a web application in both Ruby and C# as part of a joint venture with a Canadian design agency , Saiko Media.
Rabobank, an international financial services provider
The scope of the project, was to create a windows service application to aggregate acoounting data and to apply IFRS hedging rules. My primary responsibility was to create an asp.net ajax application to communicate with the Windows service.
ThoughtWorks, a Software Development Consultancy
Working on the "Forevermark" Project as part of multi-disciplined team, my role was to develop a C# windows forms application that modelled the diamond marking process across its entire value chain.
Experience Summary
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2007
Swift Computers
Swift computers are a Microsoft certified partner in London. My role was to work on different client projects writing applications using C# and VB.net. Part of my role was to introduce agile practices icluding but not limitted to, TDD, Mocking, Domain Driven Design and Continuous integration.
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2006
QCA (Qualification and Curriculum Authority)
The QCA , a Government Qualifications Accreditation department. I was tasked to develop a N-tier application using Asp.net and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 written in C#.
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2005
Systems Dynamics – DAON - Sporting Emporium
Developing a Biometric Enrolment system for a high profile casino. The application consisted of a C# Windows forms application talking to Java based web service which provided secure persistence of the biometric data.
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Greenland Interactive Ltd
Implemented a mission critical application to handle the mass data of Telephone numbers that Greenland had purchased for the IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system. I designed the system using a Service Orientated Architecture
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2004
Catalyst Housing Group
Developed an Asset Management Application to provide a centralised view off all the properties held by the group. The application utilised Web Services to provide a facade on each group member’s database of properties
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I Group (GE Capital)
Developed a financial management system to model the mortgage lending process to ensure compliance to new FSA Regulations .
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Inaphone
Developmed an SMS messaging component library that enabled anyone using the Microsoft .net framework to send and receive SMS messages in their application.
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2003
Vision Consulting - Royal Bank of Scotland
Developed a trading application for credit derivatives. The project enveloped the design and implementation of a Windows form User interface that talked to a Java/SYBASE Web service. My responsibility was to develop an object layer that wrapped the java web services, use windows .net form controls to provide the user interface for the application.
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Innovations Unleashed
Developed a .net application that allowed estate agencies to put a 5 character code on to thier sales board. Using this code a customer recieve a sms message with the property details.
Netframework
Designing and developing asp.net applications
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2002
Teletext
Teletext published news and consumer information on multiple platforms such as DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television), WAP, SMS, Analogue television, Satellite and the internet
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2000
Tomato Source
VB/ASP Developer, Tomato Source was an online recruitment solution for the telecommunications industry.
The application was implemented using ASP with VB6 Mid tier components which used ADO to communicate with a Microsoft SQL server Database.
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1996
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