Alec Jacobs

The "pickaxe" Ruby 1.9 book was my bible for a long time (https://pragprog.com/book/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9). With Ruby, I had the enlightening experience of becoming extremely proficient with a deep knowledge of the language. I only rate myself an 8 because I mostly worked on 1.9. But have stayed current with Ruby 2. And as previously mentioned, I've been writing more CoffeeScript/JS lately.

While most of my professional work has been using CoffeeScript, I have a strong grasp on JavaScript. I worked on plenty of legacy JS code (converted plenty by hand to CoffeeScript).

Spent extensive time building a complex client side application. Writing all CoffeeScript for Meteor based projects.

As a full-stack developer, collaborated with talented people on design/product/ux to make polished advanced features a reality.

Wrote a bunch of web application SQL. Worked on complex reporting, auditing, and analytics.

I worked on a well tested large enterprise application for 2 years. Here's how I estimate my time was split: - 40%: RoR/Ruby (Models, Views, Controllers, Libraries, Migrations) - 30%: Backbone/Marionette - 25%: HTML/CSS/SCSS styling - 15%: SQL (MySQL) - For scaling and performance reasons sometimes I found myself writing performant SQL queries. We ran an extensive test suite: - Server unit & integration tests in RSpec - Feature/acceptance tests in Selenium - Client side JS unit tests with Jasmine and PhantomJS I rate myself as a 7 because I might be somewhat rusty since I've been working in Meteor so much lately. Also, at my previous company, I worked exclusively on Rails 3.2. But I have learned/used Rails 4 on my own. Also rating systems are BS :)

1 year of building on my own. My RoR knowledge is still my greater asset by far.