Daniel Fone
Technical Product Manager at Freelance
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Fone is a Technical Product Manager and freelance software engineering consultant with 17 years of experience building and shipping Ruby on Rails applications, PostgreSQL-backed systems, and JavaScript/TypeScript frontends. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, he combines hands-on engineering and QA expertise—evidenced by contributions to rspec-expectations improving matcher reliability and test coverage—with product leadership at RCPA Quality Assurance Programs. Comfortable in short-term contracts and one-off consulting, he focuses on delivering pragmatic, well-tested solutions and improving developer experience. Notably, his background in test automation gives him a strong eye for edge cases and diagnostic quality that reduces production surprises.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (19)
matcher10
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
test-automation10
linux9
command-line9
e-mail9
bigdecimal7
system6
ruby-on-rails6
crud6
ascii6
bash6
generator6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rspec/rspec-expectations
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Provides a readable API to express expected outcomes of a code example
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on improving the test coverage and reliability of the `rspec-expectations` library. The contributions include adding new tests for the `exist` matcher to ensure its composability and correct behavior in different scenarios. The user also addressed bugs and edge cases in existing matchers, such as the `be` matcher, and improved the formatting of error messages to enhance debugging capabilities. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the testing of `BigDecimal` objects.
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rubynz/membership-register
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 review, 46 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
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