SEEKING WORK | Berlin, Germany or remote (originally from NYC, can make trips to US east coast)
Full stack Javascript and Ruby developer with experience as a lead, as well as a teacher/mentor. I believe in writing clear, readable, simple code and refactoring for performance as necessary. I believe in making reasonable decisions quickly &amp; working extremely pragmatically rather than spending lots of time in debates about ideal architecture. I believe in choosing relatively mature tools and libraries over the most bleeding edge tools. I'm good at communicating with other stakeholders, including non-technical execs/managers, thinking about the business problem and advocating for the user.
I have worked with a mix of startup and big companies, including projects for the New York Times, Axel Springer and Cleversafe ($1B onsite file storage service acquired by IBM). Over the past few years I have also worked for a niche social media company, a B2B fashion supply chain management company and on a one-off art installation project for Davos.
I am most experienced working with React, node.js and Rails but I can be flexible about technical stack.
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Resume upon request.
Email: ritchiea [at] gmail [dot] com