Handling over 7 large production Rails applications and a production level Sinatra application has given me a lot of great experience with not only different Rails configurations, but also helped my pure Ruby skills as well, as I've worked with Ruby 1.87 and above. Fervent testing with RSpec and Cucumber have helped to enforce just a couple of the many important best practices I look forward to helping others with.

As JavaScript is integral to almost all modern web applications, my experience with JS and jQuery has spanned my entire web dev career, learning best practices from my many talented co-workers throughout the years.

As part of what comes with the territory of being a web developer, I've built my HTML and CSS skills in tandem with my other web development skills. In keeping with current trends, learning HAML and SCSS has also come with the territory, furthering my skills and making development easier on a day to day basis. I would like to make that development easier for you as well if you are interested in learning these HTML/CSS enhancements, or if you would just like to get your feet wet or improve your basic HTML/CSS skills, I'm more that happy to help build your foundation!

As mentioned in my Ruby skills, I've worked on over 7 large production level Rails applications, ranging from Rails 2.3 to Rails 4, handling a variety of differing Gem configurations/database configurations, and development patterns. I can help with your current endeavors, or get you started on the right foot with new, green field development if you need suggestions on how and what to get started with.

As mentioned in my JavaScript skills, JS is integral to almost all modern web applications, and that has been manifested in recent years though jQuery. Therefore I've been exposed to a wide variety of structuring jQuery in a way that is best suited for the respective application, especially with the newer asset pipeline available in Rails.

With the explosion of Git as the dominant and ideal choice for version control, I've had extensive experience with Git and GitHub in every job. Combined with an almost completely agile work history, the "agile flow" has been integrated into my daily work routine resulting in clean and happy repositories :)

For the past few years I've worked with AngularJS on a daily basis, including keeping up with Angular 2+. I've previously taught both an Angular 1 and Angular 2 class on Codementor, each a four week deep dive into both framework versions. Getting up to speed with not only how to structure a large production level app, but also advanced topics such as directive controllers, transclusion, the template cache, and the use of ui-router have been my priorities, along with extensive testing through Jasmine and Protractor. If you're trying to transition away from jQuery, or just want to learn the new hottness in JS MVC frameworks, I'm your guy!

As JavaScript continues to take over the web and mobile domains, there is still an important use for native applications. If you are planning on leveraging React Native or Ioinic for your mobile development, it is still important to understand the underlying native implementation of an iOS or Android application as well. I have experience building both Objective-C and Swift iOS applications, including real-world best practices for scaling and securing your apps.  I am able to assist with XIBs, storyboards, and building programmatic views using auto layout constraints. I am also comfortable assisting to build and debug SwiftUI views with the all new iOS 13.

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Kevin F.

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Technical skills