
When I was hired at ActionSprout, the entire system was a prototype written by a brand new junior developer. He had done a great job getting an MVP started and it was time for them to ramp up reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

While at ActionSprout, I helped add new features while also reasoning through the existing code and data to resolve bugs and inconsistencies to help improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

As we hired more people and the system became larger and more complex, I mentored our newer developers and helped architect the system to perform under the substantial amount of data we were processing.

Web Developer; Mentor; Software Architect

At Carnes Media I took on a wide variety of development projects. Some were simple websites in custom PHP, Wordpress, or Shopify. Others were larger projects such as weekly retainer work on Ruby on Rails applications for much larger companies such as banks, manufacturers, and web startups.

Web Developer

At Tatango, I helped maintain their existing PHP application and eventually rewrite it to Ruby on Rails.

VP Engineering

I've been working with Ruby on Rails full time for over 10 years and have experience on a variety of different types of Rails applications.

In particular, I am experienced using TDD and SOLID OOP principles to refactor legacy Rails applications while adding new features. I am also experienced in refactoring Rails applications to scale.

I've used rails primarily at 2 web development agencies and 2 different startups. From the agencies I got experience with different kinds of applications and requirements, and in writing code that is easy to come back to. We had a good track record of improving each application both in features and code quality with each contract. Working on Rails applications at startups gave me the experience of maintaining large monoliths as well as microservices over large periods of time.


I've deployed at least 30 different applications to Heroku. Some tiny brochure websites, some microservices, some huge monoliths. Most have been Ruby on Rails, but some have been other languages such as Elixir and node. I also have experience with a wide number of Heroku addons, and connecting them between apps.

I've been working with Ember since just before 1.0 was released starting at a small web development agency, where I got to experiment with using Ember on a variety of small applications and later at a startup where I helped maintain 2 large, long-term Ember apps.

I have a small number of contributions to both [Ember.js](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commits?author=amiel) and [Ember Data](https://github.com/emberjs/data/commits?author=amiel). I also maintain a [top 100 Ember addon (ember-data-url-templates)](https://emberobserver.com/addons/ember-data-url-templates).

I've been using git almost every day since I convinced that startup I was working for to switch from subversion in 2009. I think git seems more complicated than it really is because of how large the toolset is.

I am comfortable with a number of different workflows in git and can help with basic git concepts, rebases, and bisects.

While from time to time I use another editor (I've spend a fair amount of time in TextMate, Sublime Text, and XCode), I always end up returning to vim (lately neovim). My "IDE" is the combination of tmux, vim, and various other unix tools.

I don't have a lot of in-depth experience with Elixir, but I do have 2 high-performance microservices running in production. Both of these microservices work closely with Ruby on Rails apps. One can translate a JSON:API request into an elasticsearch query, and translate the elasticsearch response in to a JSON:API response. The other takes high throughput webhooks and enqueues jobs in redis to be run by Sidekiq.

Full Stack Web Developer; Software Architect; Juggler; Musician

Amiel Martin

At Carnes Media, we were under a weekly retainer to work on specific internal tools for whitepages.com. Because we had regular time to work on it, I was able to refactor the parts that were hard to change. Eventually, we had an application with solid test coverage that was easy to add complex logic to quickly.

Internal Tools for Whitepages.com

I wrote an RFC to include url templates in Ember Data (https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pull/4). As per usual in the Ember community, it was suggested that I write an addon to see if there was interest. There has been interest, and ember-data-url-templates is within the top 100 Ember addons on Ember Observer.

Ember Data Url Templates

I lived on a boat for a while in Bellingham and frequently found myself curious what the wind gust speeds were. A company near the marina (Bellingham Cold Storage) publishes data every 5 minutes from their small weather station and I used to try to load the textual data to get that wind speed. Weatherham reads and archives that data from and puts it on a graph.

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