Bookis Worthy
Staff Software Engineer at Briefly
Seattle, Washington, United States
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SeniorBookis Worthy is a Seattle-based Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, leadership, and entrepreneurship across e-commerce, edtech, and platform businesses. He has led teams as a Director of Engineering and CTO, co-founded a venture-backed e-commerce startup that scaled to 10k daily users and raised $4.7M, and now focuses on engineering strategy and execution at Briefly. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, React, background jobs, and cloud platforms, he pairs product-minded technical delivery with hiring, coaching, and operational rigor. His background as an educator and founder informs a pragmatic approach to mentorship and alternative learning within engineering teams. Bookis has repeatedly moved projects from greenfield to production, balancing fast iteration with robust observability and internal tooling. He brings entrepreneurial grit and a penchant for turning complex systems into measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (29)
rails-app10
ada10
rails8
cms8
ruby7
indieweb7
ruby-on-rails7
heroku6
administration5
markup3
activeadmin3
activerecord3
sorting3
fitbit3
lda3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
code-builders/curriculum
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:277 commits, 2 PRs, 241 pushes in 6 months
Ada-Developers-Academy/daily-curriculum
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
Daily curriculum for Ada class
Contributions:605 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 4 months
adacurriculum
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