Jim Publicover
Full-Stack Ruby On Rails Dev at KICKDOWN
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolJim Publicover is a Full-Stack Ruby on Rails developer with a decade of professional experience who transitioned from a career in journalism and agency copywriting to software for greater stability and impact. Based in Hamburg, he specializes in API integration, data architecture, complex form management, and Hotwire/Turbo frame implementations, having built greenfield apps and maintained legacy Rails systems up through Rails 6. His work spans e-commerce payments (Stripe), routing (OSMR), AWS push notifications, and integrations with idiosyncratic German accounting systems, showing an ability to tame messy real-world constraints. Jim combines rapid prototyping instincts from his agency days with a disciplined approach to testing and refactors, notably leading a rewrite from Rails 2.1 to Rails 6. Colleagues might not guess he’s also an award-winning office poet (Bürodichterpreisträger), a detail that hints at his communication strengths and attention to craft.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby on Rails Backend engineering, Ruby on Rails Backend engineering at The Iron YardBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Poetry, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Poetry at Northwestern University
English, English, German, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
python9
kubernetes9
ios6
mobile-safari6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Publicover/portfolio
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
A portfolio site that walks you through apps I've made and jobs I've had. It lives on https://publicoverpress.herokuapp.com.
Contributions:64 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
reactwalksjavascriptherokuappreactjs
Publicover/plowr-api
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:101 pushes, 40 branches in 1 month
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