Rails expert for hire
“exceptionally bright and enthusiastic”
“writes beautiful, effective and very maintainable code”
I’m an experienced Ruby on Rails programmer based in Oxford, UK. I studied Computer Science at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and have been developing Rails applications since 2005.
I take great care to write clean, effective code and use automated testing techniques extensively. I firmly believe this is crucial in order to build high-quality, maintainable software. I started off as a front-end developer, which gives me valuable context when working with designers.
In the course of my work I have authored numerous open-source Rails plugins, many of which are available on my Github page. I have also contributed patches to Rails itself, and wrote a popular date picker plugin for jQuery.
My experience includes: jQuery, Haml, PostgreSQL, Git, RSpec, Shoulda, RR, Mocha, rcov, Geokit, Cucumber, Capistrano, Linux, API integration, Agile development. I am currently working on an experimental open-source project using Rails 3 and MongoDB. New tools are popping up all the time, and ‘best practices’ are always changing, so I make sure to stay abreast of developments.
My other interests include voluntary climate change campaign work, rock climbing, photography, and growing an allotment.
I can be emailed at work@jonathanleighton.com, but please do not contact me from a recruitment agency. Thank you.