David Berube
President at Berube Consulting
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Berube is an experienced software engineer and founder with 17 years maintaining and modernizing Ruby on Rails and PHP systems, currently serving as President of Durable Programming, LLC and proprietor of Berube Consulting. He helps companies with Rails upgrades, bug fixes, and legacy system stewardship while also creating new projects that balance practicality and longevity. An author of multiple Rails books and frequent conference speaker, he brings both deep technical knowledge and clear communication to client engagements. His background includes a successful exit from CastingFrontier, showing an eye for product and business outcomes in addition to engineering. Based in Manchester, New Hampshire, he combines hands-on coding with consulting leadership to deliver durable, maintainable solutions. Colleagues value his blend of practical problem-solving, long-term system care, and published expertise in the Rails ecosystem.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (61)
rubygems10
rollback10
mruby10
deployer9
ruby9
capistrano9
packaging9
package9
collation9
package-manager9
ansible-role8
rails-app8
fallback8
scripting7
development-tools7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
durableprogramming/mysql_change_database_encoding
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Tool for changing a database's encoding, collation, or both. Supports online schema change via pt-online-schema-change with configurable fallback.
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 10 months
collationconfigurablefallbackencodingonline-schema-change
djberube/sqlaxe
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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