Head of Engineering

Be it rails 2 with ruby 1.8.x , rails 3 with ruby 1.9.x  or rails 4 with ruby 2.0 Used them all :)

recently moved entire infrastructure form Solr To ElasticSearch. It was a tiring but a very good learning experience.

I live git :) . If you tell me you you do not use git i will probably get angry on you.
If you want to know how to use git , then probably i am your guy. I am a big fan of git pull requests approach and we do that not even for forked projects , but even on the main common project. You can learn more about it on:
http://codeinthehole.com/writing/pull-requests-and-other-good-practices-for-teams-using-github/

Used Stripe as a payment Gateway on one of the projects, and project covered all the functionalities that stripe offers like Multiple Plans, Multiple Subscriptions, Multiple Cards Per user, one time charges etc

Expertise in moving websites over HTTPS and also a big supporter of Letsencrypt revolution( https://letsencrypt.org/ ) to make SSL available to everyone for free.  

Expertise in integrating wordpress with payment gateways using plugins like woocommerce, s2member and also writing custom plugins.

Expertise in deploying Ruby on Rails apps on Digital ocean using capistrano 3 ( and also old capistrano ), unicorn, nginx, whenever( for cron), rbenv/rvm, god 

Familiar With deploying rails app on heroku, and adding new add ons, adding new hosts using GoDaddy.

Enabled Facebook like feed for a rails project using `stream_rails` and `stream-ruby` gems

Enabled single sign on for many clients as an `Identity provider` as well as `Service Provider` with digitally signed and encrypted small assertions exchange using SAML2.0 . Libraries used https://github.com/digidentity/libsaml and https://github.com/onelogin/ruby-saml 

Writing Rspec form last 3 years and is very comfortable in testing out Models, Controllers and Routes.

Have worked on beginner to advanced features of solr using Sunspot Gem .

On mostly all my projects we used mysql as database . So hands on it.

Well versed with sending, tracking clicks, web-api, analytics using sendgrid

I am not a full time server guy , But writing capistrano script(mostly for rails) is something i do a lot. Automating deployments , setting up solr and occasional server management.

We were creating a rails app and were expecting a lot of unstructured data our way , so used MongoDB as database for the application. Used mongoid gem as an ORM.

Integrated Webservices Api of responsys with the system to trigger Custom events, campaigns etc

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Sahil D.

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