Peter Boling

Experienced Rubyist, and full stack web application programmer. 28 published Ruby gems with another coming down the pipe shortly, and nearing a million downloads. I've substantively contributed to many large projects, including Rails and Hashie.

11+ years on Ruby and Rails. Web development since summer 2005. Linux System Administrator since 2004 both professionally and as a hobby. Fluent in three languages, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Currently travelling the world training Rails developers, building large scale web applications, and advising on architecture solutions.

Built, deployed and managed several top 5000 websites, and led several PHP to Rails conversions of major websites, including aSmallWorld and BibleGateway; working on websites in finance, social networking, government, and e-commerce sectors.

Co-founder of the Word Tree Foundation; a non-profit organization working to improve humanity's ability to scientifically analyze, compare, and derive meaningful data from literary works, in the first Big Data analysis of its kind.

Hired in August 2010 as the #1 employee and senior rails developer of a new personal wealth management tool for Bloomberg L.P.

CTO and co-founder of Acquaintable in November 2012, a disruptive start-up in the online dating space, which sold to LikeBright in November 2013.

Extensive open source efforts:
• http://github.com/pboling
• http://rubygems.org/profiles/pboling
• https://coderbits.com/pboling
• https://masterbranch.com/pboling
• https://coderwall.com/pboling

Specialties: Agile Web Development, Deployment, Optimization, Refactoring, Training