Tomasz Grabowski, Developer in Poland

Tomasz Grabowski

Ruby on Rails Developer

Location
Poland
Toptal Member Since
March 27, 2013

Tomasz is a person who doesn't see boundaries in what can and can't be done with software. He believes that programming is a way of thinking and a way of life.

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Portfolio

AgreeYa Mobility
JavaScript, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Zdunek Sp. z o.o.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby
Polcode
SCSS, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Ruby

Experience

CSS - 9 yearsJavaScript - 6 yearsjQuery - 6 yearsHTML5 - 4 yearsRuby - 3 yearsVim Text Editor - 3 yearsRuby on Rails (RoR) - 3 yearsSinatra - 2 years

Location

Poland

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

RubyMine, Vim Text Editor, Git, Linux, OS X, Unix

The most amazing...

...achievement for me was live coding a Twitter news reader in Ruby during a Hackathon.

Work Experience

2013 - PRESENT

Developer

AgreeYa Mobility
  • Maintaining a large Ruby on Rails project
Technologies: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
2007 - PRESENT

Developer

Zdunek Sp. z o.o.
  • Developed an internal CRM system to manage customer flow and car park.
  • Written originally in PHP using Codeigniter and MySQL, rewrote in 2010 to use Ruby, Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
  • Extended the system to monitor tasks and sales reports of sales persons.
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby
2011 - 2013

Developer

Polcode
  • Rewrote an old site written in Perl to Ruby using Ruby on Rails as a framework and MySQL as a database.
  • Wrote import scripts to get data from a remote database server and parse them into a new structure and import.
  • Created Rentlytics, a property managament tool written in Ruby and using Ruby on Rails as a framework.
  • Set up a production and staging environment: server + deployment (Nginx, Unicorn, Chef).
  • Worked on back-end and front-end issues - Ruby, JavaScript (CoffeeScript).
  • Optimized SQL queries.
Technologies: SCSS, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Ruby
2009 - 2011

Developer

Allied Newspapers Limited
  • Completely redesigned and rewrote timesofmalta.com.
  • Implemented the whole front-end and designed new site UI/UX.
  • Set up the production environment for the site - 2 separate machines as MySQL servers + machine for web server, Memcache and Sphinx.
  • Implemented advance caching techniques to improve site load time.
  • Designed and developed a mobile version of the site: m.timesofmalta.com using jQuery Mobile.
  • Developed first draft of an iOS app (iPhone/iPad).
Technologies: CSS, HTML, PHP
2007 - 2009

Developer

T&C Polska
  • Rewrote http://turystyka.org.pl/ - written in PHP, based on CakePHP framework.
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby
2006 - 2007

Developer

Trojmiasto.pl Sp. z o.o.
  • Worked on large codebase and multiple sub projects written in an internal PHP framework.
  • Extended the framework with new functionality, fixing bugs
  • Rewrote PHP4 code to PHP5.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP
2005 - 2006

Developer

Gratka.pl sp. z o.o.
  • Worked on complete rewrite of http://turystyka.gratka.pl/.
  • Implemented API system to cooperate with external touristic service http://www.easygo.pl/.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP

Experience

Trademark Safeguard

Ruby site, based on Ruby on Rails framework and MySQL database. Work included setting up server, writing import scripts, setting up cron jobs.

Rentalytics

Property management tool. Written in Ruby, using Ruby on Rails framework and PostgreSQL database. Job included initial setup of servers and importing data from several sites (Facebook, Twitter).

Nothotel

Booking system for smaller hotels and private house owners. Written in Ruby using Ruby on Rails. Job involved a lot of JavaScript work on the front-end.

Times Of Malta

http://www.timesofmalta.com/
Redesigned the biggest Maltease news site. This involved designing the whole UI/UX from scratch, getting data from old DB structure into the new structure, writing DB scripts, and setting up server environment.

Skills

Languages

Ruby, Haml, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SCSS, SQL, Python, Java, PHP, Objective-C, Bash

Frameworks

Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap, ZURB Foundation, Sinatra, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, minitest

Tools

RubyMine, Adobe Photoshop, RSpec, Capistrano, Adobe Lightroom, Vim Text Editor, Sublime Text, Subversion (SVN), Git, Xcode, Blender, NGINX

Paradigms

Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Plain Old Ruby Object (PORO), Pair Programming, Agile Software Development

Platforms

MacOS, Unix, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, Google AdWords, jQuery Mobile, Rack, Google API, Facebook API, Twitter API

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Memcached, MongoDB, NoSQL, Sphinx Search Engine

Education

2000 - 2005

Masters Degree in Internet management

Gdańsk Management Colleague - Gdańsk