Rails developer and start-up entrepreneur with a focus on frontend development and web apps with Ruby on Rails. Over the last years I have led development for several government websites such as Tasmania Police, Arts Tasmania and Tasmanian Department of Health. My own start-up evolved from many years of freelancing in web design and development.
I have a proven track record in web development, project leadership and business management. My studies of design and layout at university help me with providing aesthetic user experiences and interfaces. At the same time I’m experienced in building applications that scale, using cloud servers and document-oriented databases.
My skill set and experience includes:
WEB DEVELOPMENT
- BDD & TDD with Rails, Cucumber, RSpec, Factory Girl and Selenium
- HTML5, CSS3, canvas, WebKit optimisation, Javascript / jQuery
- MongoDB and MySQL databases
- Rackspace Cloud Servers, Cloud Files, Amazon EC2, S3
- Server administration on OS X & Debian, with nginx, Apache, Passenger
- API’s / mashups, Google Maps and Twitter API
- Version control with Git & Github and SVN
- PHP, WordPress / Joomla development and theming
- eCommerce with Magento
- Adobe Creative Suite, primarily Photoshop and InDesign
- 20 years online experience
ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Project management & leadership
- Staff management and business administration
- Retail management and customer service
- Wireframing and planning processes
- International work experience
More information
See my portfolio with a few selected reference projects, the labs page for a couple of plugins and scripts I wrote or find out more about me and additional projects on LinkedIn.
Contact me: matthiassiegel at gmail dot com
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