Francis Fish
Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Fish is a veteran software engineer with four decades of experience across health, power station engineering, finance, and e-commerce, who has specialised in Ruby on Rails since 2007 and still writes production code daily. He builds full-stack systems including native Android clients backed by Rails services and is actively migrating Rails projects to Elixir to leverage functional programming benefits. A former consultant at KPMG and Oracle, he pairs deep delivery experience with hands-on coaching in Agile, XP, BDD and Lean practices, and regularly speaks at conferences and local user groups. He is an author and organiser—writing on organisational change, running the Manchester Agile Rails Conference, and publishing practical guides for startups—bringing both technical craft and people-focused change leadership. An educator at heart, he mentors less experienced engineers while continuing to learn from them, blending pragmatic engineering with a long view on continuous improvement.
16 years of coding experience
BSC, BSC at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (33)
xmldsig10
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
java9
kotlin9
capistrano9
runner9
android9
specification8
jvm7
github-actions-runner7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Cuprium/cuprium
Mar 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:181 commits in 1 year 7 months
fjfish/werds
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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