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Ruby on Rails, end to end, for ten years.

I'm Simon You, a senior Rails developer in Adelaide, South Australia. Learner-driver marketplaces, genomics pipelines, kerbside recycling, workplace safety training: different products, same habit of owning the whole stack and keeping it boring enough to trust.

youmu.freedom@gmail.com github.com/youmufreedom

Work

git log --graph --all
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    Senior Rails Developer at Safetycare

    Full-time, remote

    SafetyHub is a learning management and CRM platform that helps companies keep the people they employ safe at work. I'm rebuilding it as a next-generation product on a modern Rails stack.

    • Rebuilt the video streaming platform on AWS, from upload and transcoding through to playback.
    • Redesigned the LMS and CRM data model and rebuilt the web UI with Hotwire and Tailwind.
    • Code review, RSpec, and Scrum with a small remote team.

    Stack: Rails 8, Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus), Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, AWS S3 & MediaConvert, RSpec

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    Software Engineer at RecycleSmart

    Full-time, remote

    RecycleSmart works with councils to collect hard-to-recycle waste from people's doorsteps. Booking a pickup is meant to feel as easy as ordering a ride, and the backend has to keep that promise.

    • Redesigned and rebuilt the payment and subscription system on Stripe.
    • Designed the campaign and coupon system, and the generator for drivers' daily routes.
    • Designed and built the REST API behind the Flutter mobile app.
    • Owned the Heroku setup, real-time bug reports, and data analysis for the customer care and marketing teams.

    Stack: Rails, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, Stripe, Heroku, Sentry, AWS S3 & Route 53

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    Full Stack Web Developer at DXC Technology

    Full-time, technical lead, Felixstow SA

    Next-Gen HUB Resource Management: an internal ERP for DXC's Adelaide delivery hub covering HR, projects, management accounting, and customer relationships, starting with HR.

    • Led the build from an empty repository: backend, frontend, and the UI design.
    • Worked directly with the business owners to turn loose requirements into a shippable scope.

    Stack: Rails, PostgreSQL, Foundation, Azure Pipelines

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      HerTechPath

      A site for a grass-roots community of women working in South Australia's tech sector. Built the app and its membership system from scratch, redesigned the database, mentored junior developers, and ran the DevOps.

      Stack: JavaScript, Vue, Node.js, AWS RDS

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    Application Developer at The University of Adelaide

    Full-time, Adelaide SA

    Genomics Data Repository: a Rails app with a Cromwell workflow engine that runs long jobs on the university's high-performance computing cluster, designed together with genomics researchers in Australia and the United States.

    • Set up the infrastructure, implemented the scientific workflows, and wired the app into the HPC system.
    • Built real-time monitoring for running jobs. Test-driven from day one.

    Stack: Rails, Cromwell, HPC, TDD

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    Web Developer at PixelForce

    Full-time, technical lead, Adelaide SA

    EzLicence is a marketplace that matches learner drivers with driving instructors across Sydney. First job out of university, first time leading a codebase.

    • Designed and integrated the Stripe payment system.
    • Built the map-based service-area picker on the Google Maps API.
    • Wrote about half of the backend and part of the frontend JavaScript, and ran QA.

    Stack: Rails, PostgreSQL, Foundation, AWS EC2 / S3 / RDS / Route 53, Stripe, Capistrano, ActionCable

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      Omnihub

      Social media monitoring for public figures. Wrote the Ruby crawlers, integrated the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter APIs, and used Elasticsearch to surface negative comments automatically.

      Stack: Rails, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, Elasticsearch

Stack

cat Gemfile
Gemfile 
# What I reach for, and why.
source "https://rubygems.org"
ruby "4.0"

gem "rails", "~> 8.1"          # daily driver since 2016; from 4.2 to 8
gem "pg"                       # PostgreSQL on every job so far
gem "turbo-rails"              # Hotwire over a heavy front-end framework
gem "stimulus-rails"
gem "tailwindcss-rails"        # today; Bootstrap and Foundation before it
gem "stripe"                   # payments at EzLicence and RecycleSmart
gem "aws-sdk-s3"               # plus MediaConvert, Route 53, EC2, RDS
gem "rspec-rails", group: :test

group :also_fluent_in do
  gem "javascript"             # jQuery to Stimulus, Vue, Node.js
  gem "python"
  gem "go"
  gem "java"
end

# Elsewhere in the toolbox: Git, GitLab, GitHub, Docker, Heroku,
# Sentry, Raygun, JIRA, Confluence, Azure Pipelines, macOS and Linux.

Education

Master of Computer Science
The University of Adelaide, 2014 – 2016
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Technology
Hong Kong Baptist University, 2010 – 2014

Contact

Say hello. Email is the fastest way to reach me, and I read everything.

youmu.freedom@gmail.com