James Blanding
Sr Developer System Administrator
Coventry, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Blanding is a senior developer and system administrator with 15 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications and infrastructure from Coventry, Rhode Island. He specializes in Ruby on Rails development and database administration across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MySQL, paired with deep Linux/UNIX and shell scripting expertise. At Basics Group he combines full-stack Rails development with day-to-day systems and network operations, ensuring applications remain performant and reliable in production. Pragmatic and quietly focused, he balances long-term platform stability with practical engineering trade-offs and is comfortable owning both code and servers. Although not active on social networks, his steady tenure and broad ops/dev skill set make him a strong candidate for teams needing an experienced, low-maintenance technical operator.
15 years of coding experience
BS, BS at University of Rhode Island
Github Skills (100)
authentication10
ruby10
ruby-install10
sketchup10
jruby10
rvm10
truffleruby10
installer10
omniauth10
rubinius10
idp10
syntax-highlighting10
mruby10
content-security-policy9
markdown9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ilikepi/dotfiles-raw
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:58 pushes, 8 branches in 10 years 2 months
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