His mission

(he chose to accept it)
Solving the hard problems at the root
He's the first one to volunteer to solve issues and is not afraid to get in the ugliest, nastiest piece of code and make it better (in fact I think he likes it). He clearly takes pride in what he does and goes the extra mile when it would benefit the larger team.
Principal Software Engineer
Cars.com

Recent Deployments

Integration
Infrastructure containerization & AWS cost optimization
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DevEx, obvervability and performance improvement
Brain
Ruby and Rails training at Github
Product
API and developer portal

Tools & Tradecraft

Ruby/Rails

JS/React

Linux

Handwriting

C/C++

Noteworthy Achievements

Found the root cause and mitigated multiple incidents where the team was stumped
Reduced infrastructure spend by a factor of 4
Uncovered a massive scraping operation by a competitor
Wrote a multi-platform game engine from scratch
Optimized frontend build time from 5 minutes to 5 seconds at a client, and deployments from 20 minutes to 3 minutes

Reports from the Field

  1. 14 tools and gems every Ruby developer would love

    Here are some of my personal favorites tools and gems as a Ruby developer to help with feedback loops, performance and debugging, and data management.
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    March 26, 2024
    Person An icon of a human figure Authors
    Joé Dupuis
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    Ruby

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