Web Developer Years Experience

TOBIAS COHEN

SUMMARY

Over seven years commercial experience in Web Development, three years using Ruby on Rails.

Proven ability to build rich web applications using Ruby and Rails and CoffeeScript.

Passionate about programming, creating elegant code, and a fantastic user experience.

Excellent communicator, experience working with staff, clients and customers to solve problems.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Ruby on Rails

Three years commercial experience developing with Rails.

Developed multiple Rails applications, including one serving thousands of users with a wide array of features

such as background tasks, image generation, payment processing, fuzzy search, merging of data.

Crafted numerous unit and integration tests with RSpec, Cucumber and Capybara.

Optimized site performance with fragment and page caching, asset bundling and dynamic loading of JS.

Implemented deployment strategies using Capistrano and Git.

JS/CoffeeScript

Over four years experience working with JavaScript and AJAX, two years with CoffeeScript.

Created custom open-source MVC framework from the ground up, successfully used to deliver interactive

features on Tornelo.com, initially using JavaScript, and later migrating to CoffeeScript.

Developed a CoffeeScript testing framework based on the design of RSpec, used internally to unit test complex

Created a popular JavaScript calendar widget with over 30 forks on Github.

Project Management and Best Practices

Worked under an Agile development structure with weekly iterations, using Pivotal tracker and Trello.

Followed test-driven development practices to deliver highly reliable implementations of mission-critical

functionality.

Consulted with both technical and non-technical staff to manage expectations and cooperatively design features

that meet staff needs.

Managed changes with Git, using branches to build new features in parallel with maintaining a live application.

Provided one-on-one support for end users, and conducted usability studies to refine user interfaces.

Other Skills

Developed custom CRM in PHP from scratch, used by over 60 staff members.

Responsible for the design of a number of sites, including setting up grid layouts, choosing colour schemes, and

building graphical elements such as buttons, navigation bars and icons using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Maintained cloud and local servers running Debian and Ubuntu Linux, experience configuring Apache,

Passenger, RVM, MySQL, PHP, SSH, Upstart, Cron.

WORK HISTORY

IT Lead/Web Developer, Chess Kids 2006 to present

Web Developer, Beachside District Sports Group 2005 to 2006

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Rails Development Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Slim, Haml, Sass, LESS

Front-end Development CoffeeScript, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, Raphael

Management and Tests Git, Pivotal, Trello, Rspec, Cucumber, Capybara

Other Technology iOS/Objective-C, Photoshop, Illustrator, PHP

WEBSITE

Further details of projects I ve worked on and demos at http://tobiascohen.com/projects/

041*-***-*** **@***********.*** 7/16 Repton Road, Malvern East 3145 http://tobiascohen.com/

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