Joseph M. Sak
Mentor
(30 reviews)
US$30.00
For every 15 mins
36
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
I am a 20+ years experienced Front- and Back-end developer, who has worked for hundreds of clients ranging from small startups to large city
I am a 20+ years experienced Front- and Back-end developer, who has worked for hundreds of clients ranging from small startups to large city governments. My skills include Ruby, Rails, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and thoughtful User Experience design.
I have a proven track record of working with learners. I meet you where you're at and work at your pace. I take the time to explain concepts to you until you understand them, meaning you can ask every question you have. I go the extra mile to ensure you've gotten value and had a chance to clarify anything that you need.
Working with me, you will learn expert fundamental concepts, best practices, tools and techniques for impressive and productive workflow, and I will always take the time to go over things line by line and get you as in-depth of an explanation as you need.
If you truly cannot give me a 5 star rating, I will refund you!
Spanish, English
Central Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined May 2014
EXPERTISE
10 years experience
I have been buried in Ruby for the past eight years, creating web sites and applications for clients of several sizes and varying needs. ...
I have been buried in Ruby for the past eight years, creating web sites and applications for clients of several sizes and varying needs. I have read lots of books including 'Eloquent Ruby' and watched a lot of screencasts such as Railscasts and Destroy All Software.
10 years experience
I have been working in Ruby on Rails for the past eight years, creating web sites and applications for clients of several sizes and varyi...
I have been working in Ruby on Rails for the past eight years, creating web sites and applications for clients of several sizes and varying needs. I have read lots of books including 'Eloquent Ruby' and watched a lot of screencasts such as Railscasts and Destroy All Software. (same description as my Ruby expertise block, I know)
6 years experience
I am pretty fast and knowledgeable in vim. I can help beginners. I rate myself a 7 for not knowing much vimscript or too much advanced st...
I am pretty fast and knowledgeable in vim. I can help beginners. I rate myself a 7 for not knowing much vimscript or too much advanced stuff.
10 years experience
I have read the Pragmatic Guide to Git, I use git every single working day, and I keep my commits atomic and as well described as possibl...
I have read the Pragmatic Guide to Git, I use git every single working day, and I keep my commits atomic and as well described as possible. I'm comfortable with rebasing, bisecting, stashing, and merge conflicts.
20 years experience
HTML was my first venture into web coding. I have kept up on HTML5 and CSS3 even as a backend programmer, and I generally know how to kee...
HTML was my first venture into web coding. I have kept up on HTML5 and CSS3 even as a backend programmer, and I generally know how to keep things clean, optimized, and semantic. I know the basics of Sass as well.
12 years experience
I have been using jQuery since around the days of 1.0. I'm still pretty familiar with its present idioms.
I have been using jQuery since around the days of 1.0. I'm still pretty familiar with its present idioms.
10 years experience
One year of plain vanilla JavaScript knowledge but backed by years of general programming understanding, have read some books such as Jav...
One year of plain vanilla JavaScript knowledge but backed by years of general programming understanding, have read some books such as Javascript the Good Parts and Functional Javascript. My JS work is usually test-driven.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(30 reviews)
roku
April 2016
After I have paired with three other mentors and felt frustrated, Joe came on board to help me in a way that I understood all that he did. He'a very great teacher and I will still be glad to come back for help if need be in the future.
Philip Cortes
April 2016
Joe was incredibly efficient at 1) gauging where I was with my rails knowledge 2) getting up to speed on my project and what I'm trying to do and 3) diving right into the problem and not only solving it, but also helping me understand WHY it wasn't working.
Will Van Wart
April 2016
I felt especially compelled to write a review for Joe, mainly because he went way out of his way a few times for me. My computer postgres database had a terrible version conflict that required me to fresh install my operating system, and Joe set my entire ENV up with me. He's quite a rockstar with rails, super personable, and eager to make sure you understand what you've done together. 5 stars. Hands down
Sarah
April 2016
Joe is great! He's super helpful and very knowledgeable!
Alexandre Goncalves
April 2016
Great guy that really know what to do!
Ricardo De Jesus
April 2016
Great service and very knowledgeable. Resolved my issue and then some!
Keeya Wang-Jones
January 2015
Another great session with Joe. He teaches how the process of how to solve a problem and not just solve trying to solve it for you. Teach a man/woman to fish and they can eat for life. Thank you Joe!!
Keeya Wang-Jones
January 2015
Joe is a very patient teacher and very knowledgeable on how to code without letting assumptions get the best of you! I look forward to the next session!
Erik Schneider
July 2014
Joe is an excellent mentor. He really stresses the importance of not jumping ahead of yourself so no extraneous code gets written. I would work with Joe again, in a heartbeat. Within 20 minutes of working with him, he helped me discover several problem areas in some code I had written, and guided me through them step by step so I could see not just how to fix them, but by WHY they were flawed in the first place.
Jose Casanova
July 2014
Joe is always a great help when I run into rails issues.
SOCIAL PRESENCE
Use good names
Declare your variables and functions with readable, clear names. Forget abbreviations. They may save you time in typing now, but they'll add time to other...
Keep your code clean
Watch your spacing and indentation. Keep it consistent and make it look nice. Fight sloppiness! This will go a long way.