{"target":{"created_at":"2008-07-21T20:09:46Z","public_repos":18,"type":"User","gravatar_id":"6944576a4252ea5303f0b978f8604a30","company":null,"blog":"http://reginald.braythwayt.com","name":"Reg Braithwaite","email":"raganwald@gmail.com","followers":263,"id":17715,"location":"Toronto, Canada","bio":"career\r\n---\r\n\r\nI am a software developer and development manager with more than twenty years of professional experience. I work as a development lead, architect, and/or senior developer on a contract basis. I also consult and deliver buzzword-free workshops on software development for teams. I recently led a team developing and maintaining the on-line service offering—in partnership with an internal team—of one of the world’s largest financial organizations. I also speak at users’ group meetings and conferences like RubyFringe and MeshU. I have delivered software development training, development management training, and sales training.\r\n\r\nI work with Javascript, Ruby, Rails, and Java.\r\n\r\nI have also created a hugely successful software development tool suite, JProbe, in an Independent Software Vendor (“ISV”) environment. I have also created business software, both Enterprise Class Software (with 3,000,000+ external users) and Software that Powers the Enterprise (200 – 2,000 internal users). I have led teams from three to twenty-three in size. I have also been a top major accounts sales executive and also held positions as a marketing manager and copywriter.\r\n\r\nget it in writing\r\n---\r\n\r\nI write code and words about code in [homoiconic](http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic) (here’s a [chronological list of posts](http://delicious.com/raganwald/homoiconic)). It’s a specialty un-blog for programmers who are interested in how and why and not just what. Prior to homoiconic, I wrote [raganwald](http://weblog.raganwald.com), a popular weblog about passionate programming.\r\n\r\ntechnology experience\r\n---\r\n\r\nIn addition to working on Rails and Java applications scaling out to millions of users, I have released [Wood & Stones](http://github.com/raganwald/wood_and_stones), a free-as-in-beer HTML5+Javascript+CSS application for playing various Go games on an iPad, and two free-as-in-speech jQuery plugins, [jQuery Combinators](http://github.com/raganwald/JQuery-Combinators) and [iGesture](http://github.com/raganwald/iGesture). I have also developed several free-as-in-speech metaprogramming extensions for the Ruby programming language, including [rewrite_rails](http://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails), the very popular [andand](http://andand.rubyforge.org/), and the monadic [Invocation Construction Kit](http://ick.rubyforge.org/).\r\n\r\nI have spent most of my career creating cross-platform (and recently cross-browser) software for Unix, Macintosh, and Windows systems, not to mention MS-DOS, CP/M and MP/M. My professional programming experience includes work with JavaScript, Ruby, Java, C/C++, Scheme, SQL, Pascal, and Basic. I have developed web applications, stand-alone desktop applications, client-server applications, and multi-user terminal applications. I have worked with jQuery, J2EE, Ruby on Rails, and various OS toolboxes/APIs.\r\n\r\nMy technical speciality is developing infrastructure (such as domain-specific or embedded languages, testing frameworks, macros, and libraries) to accelerate development and ease maintenance/reengineering. This technical approach integrates strongly with my iterative development experience.","hireable":true,"html_url":"https://github.com/raganwald","public_gists":2,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/raganwald","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6944576a4252ea5303f0b978f8604a30?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","login":"raganwald","following":5}}