Robert Derek Pitts

p 1.904.424.3289

e rbxbxdev@gmail.com

You

Somewhere I’m consistently challenged and growing as a developer/person. Somewhere with great people, exciting projects (whether it be technologically or conceptually). Somewhere that cares about the community and gives back. Flexibility and lifestyle are important as well.

ME

I like pretty code, good beer, learning, cats, and music. In my spare time I read, cycle, and make (primarily electronic) music. Generic much?

ON THE WEB!

• site: regretful.ly
• github: rbxbx
• twitter: rbxbx
• hn: rbxbx
• wwr

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

• Independent Consultant 01/2012 – Current

Working with companies and individuals in various capacities. Mentoring, software development, etc. Ruby and Clojure.

• Hashrocket 09/2009 – 12/2011 Software Craftsman & Consultant Jacksonville Beach, Florida

Working closely with clients: requirement gathering via story carding, daily standup calls, Really ‘owning’ a project, other than financially, etc. ‘Agile’, Merciless Refactoring, BDD/TDD via Rspec and Cucumber, preferring a heavier integration-test based approach now, Pair programming (always), and all that other good stuff. Develop professional software, contribute to OSS projects, etc!

• Less Everything 03/2009 – 09/2009 Software Developer Jacksonville, Florida

Maintenance and Debugging of legacy code, primarily on the LessAccounting and LessProjects applications. Implementation of new features. Client work such as GoPublic Application Behavior testing via Shoulda and Test::Unit

• Hampton Catlin, Inc 12/2008 – 05/2009 Intern Software Developer Jacksonville, Florida

Full life-cycle application development of several projects, including: The Mark News, Quantology Development of a Facebook application, using their API and FBML (Facebook Markup Language) as well as Ruby/Rails and Sinatra for Quantology, a numerology application

• RBXBX Development 2006 – 2008 Me Fort Pierce, Florida

Freelance web consulting, including: Client Acquisition, Software Development, Graphics editing/generation, Time Management, Billing, Etc. Primarily working with PHP (via CodeIgnighter/CakePHP, Wordpress/Joomla), JavaScript (via jQuery), and HTML/CSS. I was kind of terrible at the coding end of things at this point, to be honest.

SKILLS (YES, REALLY, THIS SECTION)

• Proficient Languages: Ruby, Clojure, JavaScript (jQuery, Backbone.js), CoffeeScript, SQL (not my strongest suit)

• Hobbyist Languages (ie: haven’t done much/anything “real” in them): Haskell, Obj-C, Io

• Testing frameworks: Rspec, Cucumber, Capybara, Shoulda

• Templating: HAML preferred, ERB and HTML if necessitated

• MongoDB/Mongoid: (a bit rusty ATM, but I spent a decent amount of time here, and have contributed a few patches to Mongoid)

• Editors: Vim, but I don’t hate the emacs lot. And am okay with TextMate people as well :p (Usually this isn’t that important, but can matter when pairing).

• Libraries: I’d rather not name every library I’ve touched, if you’re curious about anything specific, feel free to ask, but in Ruby the toolset has been evolving quite a bit :)

• Pretty good with the codes and the peoples, perhaps likable as well.

TALKS, ETC!

• Strange Loop 2012 (St Louis, MO) - The Higher Order Rubyist
• Madison Ruby 2012 (Madison, WI) - Co-hosted the conference and was generally helpful
• UXMad 2012 (Madison, WI) - Co-hosted the conference and was generally helpful
• Ruby on Ales 2012 (Bend, OR) - Love in the time of Polyglots
• Software Craftsmanship North America 2011 (Chicago, IL) - Bootstrapping a Lightweight Object System in Ruby (lightning talk)
• Madison Ruby 2011 (Madison, WI) - Co-hosted the conference and was generally helpful
• Ruby on Ales 2011 (Bend, OR) - The Uncanny Valley of Software Development
• Lonestar Ruby Conference 2010 (Austin, TX) - Vim for the Modern Rubyist
• Scottish Ruby Conference 2010 (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Vim for the Modern Rubyist
• RubyJax (Jacksonville, FL) - Vim for the Modern Rubyist
• CoffeeScript “Lunch & Learn” for Hashrocket
• Created and organized the (first!) local Functional Programming user group, JaxFunc. Someone else has since taken over.
• Technical Reviewer on The Rails 3 Way and Rails AntiPatterns
• Co-Hosted several episodes of Ruby5 (ruby5.envylabs.com)

OPEN SOURCE, ETC!

DIRTY

• source
• Easily run dirty (changed, untracked, added) specs and/or features in the current directory when using Git.

LATTICE

• source
• Small wrapper around sendgrid’s SMTP API, written with a co-worker

TEST-ALIGN: CENTAUR;

• website
• source
• Just for fun, created with @tpope during our time at Hashrocket

GITHUB.COM/RBXBX

• I fork lots of things. Going by memory, a list of projects that have accepted my patches…
• htty, Cucumber, Mongoid, Carrierwave, Capybara, Soundcloud-Remix, opaz-plugdk, bench_press, Homebrew (only recipes here, not core code)…

RAILSBOOST

• github.com/hcatlin/railsboost
• written while I was interning with Hampton Catlin (author of HAML/SASS/etc)
• A point & click Rails 2.3.x template generator, back when that was exciting.
• DHH tweeted about it, neat :D
• railsboost.com