Daniel Rice
Freelance Software Engineer And Technology Consultant at Rails Agency
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Rice is a business-savvy freelance software engineer and technology consultant with 11 years of experience building mission-critical enterprise and SaaS systems for clients ranging from startups to Global Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, Heroku, AWS, SaaS integration, and building MVPs, and brings hands-on expertise in NoSQL and big data patterns to pragmatic product delivery. As a former CTO and founder of multiple ventures, he pairs technical execution with strategic leadership, delivering solutions that leverage existing IT infrastructure and cloud platforms. He has contributed to the popular acts_as_paranoid Rails gem to ensure cross-version compatibility, demonstrating thoughtful open-source maintenance on core Rails tooling. Based in the Atlanta metro area, he also runs a nonprofit foundation, reflecting an entrepreneurial drive that extends beyond pure technology into community impact.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
WesleyanApplied Psychology, Applied Psychology at Georgia Institute of TechnologyWesleyan School
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Github Skills (6)
package-development10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
testing5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ActsAsParanoid/acts_as_paranoid
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily worked on adapting the `acts_as_paranoid` gem to support different versions of Rails and ActiveRecord. Their contributions involved mapping Rails versions to the appropriate validator classes, fixing association scopes, and removing unnecessary version checks. They also refactored the code to normalize on a single validator class and use ActiveRecord's attribute setter. Their work ensured the gem's compatibility with various Rails versions.
recordsrailsmongoidhideruby
ldstudios/activeadmin
Apr 2017 - Aug 2020
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrailsadministrationruby
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