Glenn Goodrich
Principal Architect at Method
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolGlenn Goodrich is a Principal Architect with 17 years of experience designing and delivering complex web and distributed systems, currently leading strategic product and solutions architecture at Method from Barcelona. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping infrastructure and code in Ruby and Go—with people leadership, mentoring developers and formalizing discovery and architecture documentation across delivery teams. Glenn bridges sales and delivery to shape offerings and win new business, and has deep practical experience building microservice e-commerce frameworks, API-driven platforms, and containerized deployments. He stays engaged in the community as a curator for Ruby Weekly and Go Weekly and authored "Rails: Novice to Ninja," reflecting both a passion for teaching and for staying on the cutting edge. A frequent contributor to Ruby tooling—improving clients like parse-ruby-client—he enjoys rolling up his sleeves to solve tricky backend problems while refining team processes for better outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
rest-api10
querying10
ruby10
testing9
object-oriented-programming9
test-unit9
unit-test9
unit-testing9
heroku6
neo4j6
cypher6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adelevie/parse-ruby-client
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
A simple Ruby client for the parse.com REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Glenn primarily focused on enhancing the Parse Ruby client's functionality by implementing features related to array relations and querying. Their commits introduce methods for adding relations to arrays and querying objects based on related entities. The user also refined existing code, adding logging for debugging purposes, and fixing calls to pointers for improved functionality. This work demonstrates their contribution to the core functionality of the Ruby client library.
apiruby-clientrubyrestrest-api
ruprict/oriented
Aug 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:150 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
railsrubyorientdbgemjruby
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