Myron Marston
Away on vacation
Mentor
(3 reviews)
US$100.00
For every 15 mins
3
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ABOUT ME
Open source Ruby developer. RSpec maintainer. I have extensive experience building backend systems using technologies like SQL, S3, Riak and
Open source Ruby developer. RSpec maintainer. I have extensive experience building backend systems using technologies like SQL, S3, Riak and Redis.
Rubyist. RSpec maintainer. Contributor to many open source projects. I've been a professional software engineer for 10 years and have spent the last three and half years working on distributed systems with technologies like Amazon S3, MySQL, Riak and Redis.
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Joined September 2014
EXPERTISE
5 years experience
I've been the lead maintainer of RSpec since 2012 and a regular contributor to the project since 2010. It's not an exaggeration to say t...
I've been the lead maintainer of RSpec since 2012 and a regular contributor to the project since 2010. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the world's leading expert on RSpec. I know more about how it works and how to use it well than anyone else.
7 years experience
I taught myself ruby in 2007 and have used it as my main language ever since. I know the nooks and crannies of the language very well an...
I taught myself ruby in 2007 and have used it as my main language ever since. I know the nooks and crannies of the language very well and am well known in the ruby community as the maintainer of RSpec and the creator of the VCR gem.
7 years experience
I taught myself Ruby on Rails in 2007 (at the time, Rails 1.2 was the current version). I've built a few different rails apps both at mu...
I taught myself Ruby on Rails in 2007 (at the time, Rails 1.2 was the current version). I've built a few different rails apps both at multiple different companies. Recently, I've been building ruby apps at Moz that don't use Rails, but I still know Rails well and can advise. I also have commits in Rails:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commits?author=myronmarston
9 years experience
I picked up TDD early in my career (in 2005) while doing .NET. I've continually gotten better at it and it's the primary way I develop c...
I picked up TDD early in my career (in 2005) while doing .NET. I've continually gotten better at it and it's the primary way I develop code. In addition, I created the VCR gem as a tool to help with TDDing HTTP-dependent code, and it has now been ported into Groovy, Python, Elixir, Clojure, .NET, node, Erlang, PHP, objective C and more.
5 years experience
RSpec and cucumber are probably the most famous BDD tools out there, and I have extensive experience with both.
RSpec and cucumber are probably the most famous BDD tools out there, and I have extensive experience with both.
6 years experience
I started using git in January 2009. I've used it almost every day since. I'm a regular contributor to open source ruby projects. I un...
I started using git in January 2009. I've used it almost every day since. I'm a regular contributor to open source ruby projects. I understand git's datamodel very well and regularly massage commits before pushing using git's more advanced features.
15 years experience
I first learned SQL as part of my job working in the finance office of the university I attended in 2000-2004. I used Oracle at that job...
I first learned SQL as part of my job working in the finance office of the university I attended in 2000-2004. I used Oracle at that job but since then I've used SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL. I know how to model relational data well.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(3 reviews)
James
December 2014
Very knowledgable and very quick!
Tim Fong
December 2014
This was a great session, he definitely helped me get to the kernel of the issues, rapidly code-paired to get me something usable and understandable for me. He gave a lot of valuable context, and put very helpful comments in the code itself by typing and explaining as he went along. This is what I was looking for from a codementor relationship -- to move fast, but also to have enough information in the comments to help me go back and use the sample to work through the rest of my code.
Nick Lashinsky
November 2014
Myron is a wizard; he made my problem easier to digest and solve! He helped me think about solving this SQL application problem by breaking down the issues and solutions into manageable steps; he also came up with some creative ideas for making our project much better!
Also, Myron is a super experienced professional software engineer and was able to offer solid career advice.
A++!