Work

Below are some examples of my most recent work. I've used a wide variety of technologies in my 10+ years of programming, but am currently most fond of Ruby and the excellent collection of resources offered by that language. Although I'm not (yet) married to Ruby, my preferred development stack for projects I'm working on now usually consists of:

  • Ruby 2.0
  • Rails 4
  • PostgreSQL+DataMapper or MongoDB+Mongoid
  • Ember.js and/or jQuery
  • Zurb Foundation
  • RSpec or Minitest
  • Heroku

GetAFive

GetAFive is a Chicago-based startup in the online learning space, notably video-based AP test-prep.

ApplicationRuby on Rails, PostgreSQL, ActiveAdmin, Memcached, Sidekiq
Front-endTwitter Bootstrap, jQuery, Amazon Cloudfront, JWPlayer, MathJax
Test suiteRspec, Capybara, Poltergeist, VCR, Timecop, FactoryGirl
Third partyPandastream, Mailchimp, New Relic, DBInsights
ServerHeroku, Unicorn

Lost Crates

Lost Crates began as a monthly subscription service for fans of stationery products and later offered additional subscriptions to products selected by partners like Design Milk and Joy the Baker.

ApplicationRuby on Rails, MySQL, ActiveAdmin, DelayedJob
Front-endjQuery, jQuery UI
Third partyShopify, Braintree, Mailchimp
ServerUbuntu, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, god

Richard Galling

This is a portfolio site and basic CRM built for a Milwaukee-based painter. The design was kept as minimal as possible in order to prioritize the artwork.

ApplicationRuby on Rails, PostgreSQL, ActiveAdmin
Front-endTwitter Bootstrap
ServerHeroku, Nginx

GetFreshKit

Another monthly subscription service, GetFreshKit specialized in men's grooming products.

ApplicationRuby on Rails, MySQL, ActiveAdmin, DelayedJob
Front-endjQuery, jQuery UI
Test suiteRspec, Capybara, Timecop, FactoryGirl
Third partyBraintree, Mailchimp
ServerUbuntu, Nginx, Phusion Passenger

doggyloot

doggyloot is the leading deal site for dog products.

ApplicationRuby on Rails, MySQL
Front-endjQuery, jQuery UI
Test suiteRspec, Capybara, Poltergeist, VCR, Timecop, FactoryGirl

dmcca.be

You're on this site right now. I'm working on generalizing the repository for my Jekyll setup for easy forking.

ApplicationJekyll
Front-endZurb Foundation
ServerGitHub Pages