Anthony Drake
Senior Software Engineer at GoNintendo
Avon, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Drake is a Senior Software Engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails, and currently contributing at StreetIQ. He has led large Rails upgrades, designed custom background processing and data synchronization systems for healthcare and enterprise platforms, and built multi-vendor ordering and scraping frameworks to bridge API gaps. A longtime maintainer and contributor to notable open-source Rails gems like sidekiq-scheduler and mailboxer, he’s comfortable refactoring legacy code to keep projects compatible with modern Rails and Sidekiq releases. He also runs and evolves a high-traffic video game journalism site he rebuilt from PHP to Rails, pairing full-stack development with server administration and community management. Known for pragmatic engineering—automating repetitive workflows, integrating CRM systems, and leveraging AI in content curation—he brings a mix of operational ownership and incremental modernization to product teams. Based in Avon, Indiana, he combines deep Rails expertise with a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade systems and improving developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Technology Web Development, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Technology Web Development at Indiana University Indianapolis
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Github Skills (14)
activerecord10
refactoring10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
sidekiq10
scheduler10
ruby10
testing9
software-design9
database-design9
css8
redis7
cron6
database6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sidekiq-scheduler/sidekiq-scheduler
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 11 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Sidekiq-Scheduler gem, a job scheduler for Sidekiq. Their contributions include fixing CSS paths and styles for the web UI, adapting the codebase to be compatible with Sidekiq 6.5 and 7, removing deprecation warnings, and refactoring code related to Sidekiq configuration and queue management. They also worked on improving the test suite to support Sidekiq 7.
schedulerrubysidekiqjobjob-scheduler
mailboxer/mailboxer
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on refactoring and updating the `mailboxer/mailboxer` Rails gem to align with newer Rails versions (4.2 and 5). Their contributions involved removing deprecated code, adjusting database interactions, and updating dependencies to maintain compatibility and improve code quality. These changes included modifications to ActiveRecord scopes and the removal of unnecessary legacy code. They also addressed issues related to database compatibility and Rails conventions.
ruby-on-railsinboxdiscoursesend-messagesrails
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