Personal details

Mohnish J. - Remote full-stack developer

Mohnish J.

Timezone: Berlin (UTC+2)

Summary

A programmer with 7+ years of experience mainly building Ruby based web applications. I believe in using the right programming language to get things done. Mohnish currently is also one of the mentors on the Ruby track of Exercism.io(https://exercism.io)

He considers myself fortunate to have international work experience working out of countries like Singapore and UK through some of my past roles.

Some of the Ruby and Elixir articles that Mohnish has written include -

  1. [Ruby] How to Setup RSpec, Factory Bot and Spring for a Rails 5 Engine(https://medium.com/@mohnishgj/how-to-setup-rspec-factory-bot-and-spring-for-a-rails-5-engines-154af307c12d)
  2. [Ruby] Learnings from facilitating a Ruby meetup where people solved an Exercism kata via Pair programming(https://medium.com/@mohnishgj/learnings-from-facilitating-a-ruby-meetup-where-people-solved-an-exercism-kata-via-pair-programming-39c78113b86b)
  3. [Elixir] Why use typespecs in Elixir?(https://medium.com/@mohnishgj/why-use-typespecs-in-elixir-5de1c37d5dc4)
  4. [Elixir] The journey of solving an Elixir exercise on Exercism and how that led me to look beyond the impostor syndrome(https://codeburst.io/the-journey-of-solving-an-elixir-exercise-on-exercism-and-how-that-led-me-to-look-beyond-the-98fb9d7ae298)

Some of his open source contributions include:

  1. [Ruby] Working on Planner(contributions present here - https://github.com/codebar/planner/commits?author=boddhisattva) which powers - https://codebar.io/
  2. [Ruby] The Ruby Spec Suite(contributions present here - https://github.com/ruby/spec/commits?author=boddhisattva)
  3. [Elixir] Hexpm(contributions present here - https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commits?author=boddhisattva) - Package Manager for the Erlang ecosystem

Work Experience

Freelance Software Developer
Getro | Jan 2022 - Present
Ruby on Rails
● Built prototypes in 2 week release cycles towards building an MVP for the Getro People product ● Added Tracking capabilities using Woopra to measure the impact of our work and use lessons learnt towards building better prototype iterations going forward
Senior Developer
BAbbel | Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Ruby on Rails
● Lead a team by taking ownership of building a new Ruby on Rails B2B2C app. This unblocked the team to work on their tasks independently. Conducted code reviews on the project. ● Lead the complete rebranding of a product whose codebase had a challenging amount of technical debt. Resulting work led to documentation efforts that reduced the cycle time of related tasks for the team and made them more autonomous ● Improved onboarding experience for team members ● Improved engagement & sense of belongingamong team members ● Gave a live customer demo for one of our most recently completed product offerings

Personal Projects

Hangman GameIconOpenNewWindows
2015
JavaScript
Worked with a distributed team to build a hangman game that mainly uses JS
An Expenses Management AppIconOpenNewWindows
2018
Java
Ruby on Rails
AJAX
PostgreSQL
An expense management app to track