Summary
Ginger Griffis is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of development experience and deep expertise in object-oriented design, including 14 years working in Smalltalk and recent focus on Ruby on Rails after completing Codefellows. Currently contracting at T-Mobile in Seattle, she combines a track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable systems ahead of schedule with strong communication and cross-team leadership. Her background spans enterprise banking, telecom, and smart-card systems where she led complex integrations and web services projects that increased revenue and tightened security. Ginger pairs pragmatic engineering with a customer-focused mindset and an appetite for rapid learning, evidenced by her transition from legacy languages like COBOL and Visual Basic to modern Rails development. She also contributes time as a webmaster for regional non-profits, showing a commitment to community impact alongside commercial work. Seeking senior OO/Rails roles, she brings both institutional knowledge of large systems and hands-on agility for fast-moving teams.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
First Java Certfication Course, First Java Certfication Course at University of Washington
BBA, Management Information Systems, BBA, Management Information Systems at University of Oklahoma
Student, Ruby on Rails web development, Student, Ruby on Rails web development at CodeFellows
Core class work, Core class work at The University of Tulsa
Norman Highschool