Dean Perry is a seasoned Ruby on Rails developer with 14 years in tech and over a decade building hundreds of Rails apps for clients and personal projects through his freelance studio Voupe. Based in Southampton, he pairs practical full‑stack Rails experience—backend integrations, auth, CI/CD and admin UI polish—with hands‑on ops work, evidenced by contributions to notable open‑source projects like Samson and Danger where he implemented GitLab authentication and improved CI/test infrastructure. Comfortable across the stack, he also builds Twitch tooling and moderates communities, reflecting a user-focused, product-minded approach. He’s approachable for freelance and collaborative work, with a portfolio at voupe.com and a habit of improving developer workflows behind the scenes.
Ruby on Rails Ecommerce platform, perfect for your small business solution.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:61 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dean contributed to various aspects of the Ruby on Rails e-commerce platform. Their commits reflect a mix of backend adjustments, such as merging branches, modifying models, and controllers, and frontend updates, including styling the admin interface using Foundation 3 and other CSS. The user also enhanced user interface elements for the admin backend and made several styling improvements to different admin pages.
🚫 Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review (in Ruby)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:12 commits, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dean primarily focused on improving the test suite and CI/CD configurations for the project. This includes fixing environment manager tests, updating GitLab CI source, and setting up the correct environment variables for testing. They also made updates to the test setup and configurations for GitHub request sources, which reflects their engagement with integrating the project with external platforms and maintaining the test infrastructure.
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