Dewey Garwood
Owner at Shining Light Consulting, LLC
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorDewey Garwood is a seasoned software engineer and owner of Shining Light Consulting with 13 years of experience delivering reliable SaaS products and deployment pipelines across Elixir and Ruby on Rails. He excels at turning ideas into production features by removing process friction—restructuring AWS, automating builds, and migrating platforms to save clients substantial recurring costs. Comfortable across the full stack (React/Angular front-ends, Rails/Elixir back-ends, SQL, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes), he’s repeatedly stabilized failing efforts and led small teams to customer-facing launches on aggressive timelines. A pragmatic troubleshooter, he has a strong track record in QA-driven development and operationalizing test automation to reduce onboarding and incident overhead. Based in Arvada, CO, Dewey combines technical depth with CliftonStrengths like Learner and Strategic, which shows in his habit of quickly mastering new stacks to unblock clients.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (52)
deterministic10
ruby-rails9
puma9
openweather9
replay9
plugin8
test-coverage8
testing8
upstream7
coverage7
jekyll7
breadcrumb7
capistrano7
object-model7
rails7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dgarwood/exercism_solutions
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
dgarwood/thinksterio-rails-example
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 10 days
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