Avdi Grimm
MC Head Gardener at ShipRise LLC
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolAvdi Grimm is an experienced software engineer, coach, and author with 11+ years crafting reliable systems and mentoring developers, currently leading Graceful.Dev as MC / Head Gardener. He runs RubyTapas and has authored influential books like Confident Ruby and Exceptional Ruby, blending deep Ruby expertise with practical teaching. His background spans startups and embedded/industrial systems—from employee #1 at an early cloud test startup to building air-traffic control and clinical research software—giving him a rare mix of distributed systems, testing, and domain-driven design experience. Based in Missouri, he’s committed to humane, impact-focused software and helping engineers bring their whole selves to craft confident, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Carroll Community College
English
Stackoverflow
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tdd
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logging
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ruby
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Github Skills (200)
rubocop10
programming-language10
displays10
windows10
rspec10
mvc10
ruby10
linter10
rake10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
static-analysis10
formatter10
mastodon10
code-analyzer10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
avdi/avdi.codes
Feb 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
avdi/dotfiles
May 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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