Ben Minerds
Ruby On Rails Developer at Myfreight
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Minerds is a Ruby on Rails developer with 14 years of broad software experience spanning embedded systems, game frameworks, and full-stack web apps. He combines low-level proficiency (assembly, C++) with modern stacks (Rails, Django, NodeJS, C#, Android) and a strong CI and Agile practice. At Myfreight and previous roles he has shipped Rails projects and contributed meaningful back-end features to open-source nonprofits like rubyforgood/casa, adding court date management and tests. Ben is also an active FOSS advocate and organizer—he leads Free Software Melbourne and has presented at Linux Conf Australia—bringing uncommon policy-to-code experience from gaming regulation into productized, testable solutions. He’s focused on improving TDD discipline and translating complex regulations and stakeholder needs into reliable software.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of information Systems / Bachelor of Arts, Logic, Bachelor of information Systems / Bachelor of Arts, Logic at La Trobe University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
database-migrations10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
database-migration10
rails10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
rspec9
pundit8
casa8
javascript6
jslint6
android6
jquery6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the CASA application. They added a court date feature, modifying database schemas, models, views, controllers, and policies to accommodate this new functionality. Further contributions include formatting date displays in the user interface, adding date fields to forms, and implementing corresponding tests for different user roles. These changes aimed to improve the application's ability to manage and display court-related information.
servesyouthr4gmanagement-systemcasa
PuZZleDucK/PuZZleDucK.ORG
Dec 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:277 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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