Grouper is an “Offline Social Club” who joined YCombinator in 2012. In 2013 Grouper decided to pivot towards a mobile-first experience, and I was brought onboard contracting as a senior full-stack developer. I worked under the guidance of Tom Blomfield, Tom Brown and Michael Waxman to deliver the backend services that powered the platform. Notably, I built the recommendation engine, the matching engine and a significant part of our asyncronous billing system. more»

Grouper is an “Offline Social Club” who joined YCombinator in 2012. In 2013 Grouper decided to pivot towards a mobile-first experience, and I was brought onboard contracting as a senior full-stack developer. I worked under the guidance of Tom Blomfield, Tom Brown and Michael Waxman to deliver the backend services that powered the platform. As part of an ongoing initiative, we frequenlty built off-shoot products and experiments in order to test our assumptions about our market. more»

Immerse is a VR startup based in London, UK. Immerse provides an enterprise virtual reality CMS and Unity SDK . I joined the company in 2017 as a DevOps Engineer to lead the company’s effort in becoming a global VR platform. Notably, my efforts at Immerse include; building a deployment system which allows us to deploy, update, and scale global infrastructure within minutes modernising their infrastructure in AWS using terraform reworking their Unity3d build pipelines and configuring Team City introducing test suites and TDD to existing development teams working with the QA department to develop inter-project acceptance tests using capybara more»

You might have read the infamous blog posts titled “Rails is Dead”, but I have seen development teams flounder over and over again when they try and reinvent the wheel using NodeJS on the backend. Rails is Scalable Despite the negative press, I’ll argue rails does scale. After developers at Twitter have spoken at length about their issues with Rails performance, it’s easy to get the wrong idea. Rails is not the fastest framework in the world… but I will argue that performance is the last thing you should worry about when you want to scale. more»

I recently did a live coding session on a 3d audio server built in Elixir.

This project involves quite a complicated supervision tree where GenServers are created and destroyed dynamically based on users joining a room and moving around.

As such this requires in-depth logging of processes in the application.

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In this live-coding session I work on an Elixir server built to support huge numbers of users chatting in 3d.

In these sessions we build a supervision tree based on the following architecture:

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The AST Guidelines ruby gem gem analyses Ruby module heirarchies to ensure you do not violate bounded context design. A bounded context is a concept of domain driven design which dictates the design of complex software systems. more»

The Ruby on Rails framework often gets a lot of hate over the years. Rails makes it easy to get up and running quickly. Unfortunately, its beginner-friendly approach leaves you high and dry months later when you have thousands of lines of code. Rails applications of this type are often referred to as Rails monoliths. One of the best ways to refactor and save an aging Rails monolith, is to extract service objects. more»