adam_anderson(1) - ruby web developer

adam_anderson(1)
adam_anderson(1)

NAME

adam_anderson - ruby web developer

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

Adam is a test-driven developer who loves building products that make people happy. He is an aspiring Software Craftsman who values the empowering nature of technology and self-organizing networks.

Testing is a way of life for Adam, and has been ever since reading The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas. He finds that the most successful teams are small and value people over process. He's worked alongside awesome teams at Infosys and Gap Inc. Direct developing testing tools. In 2009, he joined Insider Pages to work on connecting people with the best doctor, contractor, or restaurant in their areas. Most recently, Adam worked with ProFounder to develop products to empower entrepreneurs.

Adam attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and has lived in San Francisco, London, and Bengaluru. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Becky.

Adam is a lover of all things agile and independent from mopeds to small businesses to family.

CONTACT

-b, --blog: Fingernails in Oatmeal
-g, --github: scudco on GitHub
-i, --irc: scudco on irc.freenode.net
-l, --linked-in: Adam Anderson on LinkedIn
-p, --plus: Adam Anderson on Google+
-t, --twitter: @scudco
-f, --flickr: scudco on Flickr

HISTORY

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doing

reading

interested in

REST
mopeds

who i've worked with

Laurels
Make Today Awesome
ProFounder
Gear My Toon
Insider Pages
Gap Inc. Direct
Infosys

experience

2010 to 2011 ProFounder
Rails Developer
West Hollywood, California

Worked with small team to release new features weekly
Developed legal compliance engine for investing with Federal Rules 504 and 506
Worked under guidance of the CTO to establish an agile, testing-based culture
Pioneered test-first approach for CSS using object-oriented CSS and style guides

2010 to 2011 Gear My Toon
Co-Founder
San Francisco, California

Built and designed a Rails site from the ground up with my co-founder
Configured chef scripts to quickly spin up EC2 instances
Used resque and redis to implement background jobs to interact with external services
Used Varnish to implement simple load-balancing and HTTP caching

2009 to 2010 Insider Pages
Rails Developer
San Francisco, California

Pair-programmed in a team of four developers using TDD with RSpec
Implemented a total site redesign
Introduced semantic HTML to reduce page weight
Advocated progressive enhancement to increase accessibility
Helped reduce release cycle from two weeks to one week
Worked closely with the business to develop minimum viable products
Implemented A/B testing with Vanity on redis
Migrated conversion metrics from Omniture to Google Analytics

2008 to 2009 Gap Inc. Direct
Test Engineer
San Francisco, California

Worked with an agile team to build an isolated environment for gap.com
Wrote the taza browser-based test framework
Wrote multiple open-source tools to assist acceptance testing
Used JRuby to mock integration points in a Java e-commerce application

2007 to 2008 Gap Inc. Direct via Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Test Automation Engineer
San Francisco, California

Wrote automated test scripts in Ruby
Refactored areas of the test automation framework with a self-organized team
Strengthened Continuous Integration by conforming to Ruby community standards
Compiled manual test plans for scenarios which were not good automation candidates

2006 to 2007 Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Test Engineer
Bangalore, India

Supported team of experienced testers during their transition to Test::Unit
Wrote manual test plans
Worked with management to determine areas of growth in the testing industry

education

University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
May 2006

OPEN SOURCE

Taza - Test webapps like a user
Taglob - Tag your ruby files
Horrible - Make manual testing less horrible
WTF - Manage your TLAs
Faceroll - Instantaneous profits

Contributed to

ENVIRONMENT

Adam works best in a test-driven, agile environment.

BUGS

Adam has been known to hatch hare-brained ideas that don't make sense. See adam_anderson(1).

COPYRIGHT

Copying is not theft.