Adam Meehan
Director at Research Path
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarAdam Meehan is a Director and seasoned software leader based in Melbourne with 18 years’ experience delivering data-driven web applications and clinical research systems. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails engineering with leadership in multi-centre clinical trials, data management and business development, having built IVR randomisation services and led data integrity standards in academic and industry settings. A long-time open-source contributor, Adam has improved prominent Rails gems (Formtastic, wicked_pdf, counter_culture) and test tooling, often focusing on refactors that boost clarity, maintainability and batch performance. He mentors engineers in TDD/BDD and has guided large multidisciplinary teams working on high-scale reporting and big-data integration at Sensis. Colleagues would note his practical blend of rigorous data quality discipline and pragmatic code craftsmanship that surfaces in both production systems and well-tested libraries.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (29)
ruby-rails10
lib10
validations10
package-development10
testing10
cucumber10
rspec10
rails10
formtastic10
capybara10
validation10
refactor10
ruby10
parse10
pdf-generation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adzap/validates_timeliness
May 2008 - Jan 2023
Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails. Supports multiple ORMs and allows custom date/time formats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 782 commits, 50 PRs in 14 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development of the `validates_timeliness` library, focusing on its core validation logic. Their work involved refining and improving the existing validation system, including fixing the `:between` option. They also added new functionality, such as error messages for custom validation rules and the installation generator with a config template. The user's changes involved modifying the validator class to provide robust time and date validation features, and improve the test suite.
date-timeormsvalidationrailsruby
mattheworiordan/capybara-screenshot
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
Automatically save screen shots when a Capybara scenario fails
Role in this project:Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the `capybara-screenshot` library by refactoring and adding functionality related to screenshot saving. They restructured the `Saver` class, introduced configuration options for autosaving on failure, and incorporated methods for different testing frameworks (Cucumber, RSpec, Minitest). Furthermore, the user added methods to capture and display screenshots and wrote tests for the Saver class.
minecraftshotsminitestfailsscenario
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