Benjamin Roth
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Benjamin is a skilled developer and consultant with technical expertise in Ruby, RoR, and JavaScript, with a thorough understanding of test-driven development. He has developed numerous successful Rails solutions and seeks the opportunity to ply his programming skills and advise and guide teams of developers.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Docker
The most amazing...
...achievement I've accomplished is being ranked #1 in the all-time list for Rails questions on StackOverflow.
Work Experience
Owner
Peachyweb
- Led the company in maintaining the right balance between effectiveness and excellence.
- Built a large Rails app split between independent and flexible services.
- Created numerous APIs for internal JavaScript apps and external clients' needs.
- Refactored cluttered legacy applications to achieve compatibility with regressions tests.
- Helped teams to find adapted ways to better work together.
CTO
Worders
- Built product from scratch.
- Managed the engineering team.
Lead Developer
Unite us
- Built a full single-page app with Angular.
- Managed the engineering team.
- Kept in constant communication with the product owner to discuss next steps.
Lead Engineer
Textmaster
- Led the entire IT team.
- Reviewed the code of all team members before integration.
- Determined the whole application architecture.
- Created a variety of independent services including extracting and processing text files, an adapted admin interface, and gathering business KPIs.
- Integrated payment interfaces.
- Integrated services including the Microsoft Word API.
CTO
Hypios
- Led a team of 12 developers as CTO.
- Worked hand in hand with the business and communication sections of the company.
- Distributed tasks, organized sprints.
- Developed the website search engine (backed by sphynx).
- Integrated social APIs including Facebook and LinkedIn.
Experience
StackOverflow Contributions
http://stackoverflow.com/tags/ruby-on-rails/topusersRuby Book
https://leanpub.com/the-unhappy-pathUnite us
Open Source: Gmaps4rails
https://github.com/apneadiving/Google-Maps-for-RailsTextmaster
http://www.textmaster.comSkills
Languages
Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, PHP
Frameworks
AngularJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Symfony, Angular
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Google Maps, LinkedIn API, Facebook API
Platforms
MacOS, Docker
Storage
Elasticsearch, NoSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached
Education
Master of Science in Engineering Degree in Applied Mathematics, Optimization
ENSTA - Paris, France
Master of Science in Engineering Degree in Management, Acoustics
Naval Academy - France
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