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I'm currently working for 37signals as a Senior programmer in the SIP (Security, Infrastructure, Performance) team. I love OSS: I'm a Rails contributor and member of the Gitlab Core Team.
Below you'll find the key engineering principles in which I believe:
- Not over engineering: Always try to "do the simple thing", embrace the philosophy of don't reinvent the wheel but when is required also do the groundwork.
- Self management: Don't need a manager which does daily check-ins.
- Automation is key: when something has to be done always consider the trade-off of automating the
process.
- One big part of automation is testing: use TDD development when is fit and test the full stack of the application following the test pyramid principle{:target="_blank"}.
- Write code for humans: write code to be read by humans, debugged by humans and maintained by humans.
Over the years I've figured out what motivates me and the conditions under which I like to work:
- Culture: From my experience, autonomous people and cross-functional teams working through consensus and helping each other bring the best results. Micro-management is not acceptable.
- Role: I'm mostly knowledged in back-end development using Ruby on Rails, can work on the frontend too but it's not my strongest skill. I do embrace the DevOps movement and have hands on infrastucture management with Kubernetes.
- Transparency: I work more effectively when the company shares as much of the long-term intentions as possible.
- Work-life balance: While I am ok with putting in a few extra hours on rare occasions, regular over-time is not something I do.
If you'd like to know about my development career you can [download my resumé.]({{"/assets/attachments/resumé.pdf" | relative_url }})
Below you can find some of my OSS contributions:
- Gitlab{:target="_blank"} and GitlabFOSS{:target="_blank"}
- Rails{:target="_blank"}
- Suse Open build service{:target="_blank"}
- Ruby{:target="_blank"}
- Test-Prof{:target="_blank"}
- More on my Github profile{:target="_blank"}
Currently I'm spending my time diving into Rails internals and working on increasing the amount of my contributions to the project.
Get in touch? Please send me a message on twitter or linkedin.