Joel Sugarman
Senior Ruby Developer at Ministry of Justice UK
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoel Sugarman is a Senior Ruby Developer based in London with 11 years focused on full-stack Rails work and a long institutional career at the UK Ministry of Justice. He combines hands-on Ruby/Rails development with DevOps responsibilities (Kubernetes, AWS, CI) and maintains/supports a mix of modern Python/Django apps and legacy Java/Oracle/PL/SQL systems. His background as a senior Oracle developer and DBA gives him deep database and PL/SQL expertise uncommon in many Rails specialists, enabling him to bridge legacy case-management platforms and modern cloud-native services. Active on GitHub, he presents himself as a pragmatic engineer who ships reliable production systems and thrives on maintaining complex, multi-technology estates in a high-regulation public sector environment.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Biochemistry BSc (Hons), Biochemistry BSc (Hons) at The University of ManchesterISEB - International diploma in system development, System development, pass, ISEB - International diploma in system development, System development, pass at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Github Skills (102)
ruby10
cloud-platform10
backend10
calculator10
webapp10
cbo10
laa-apply10
billing10
rails10
finder10
psql10
go10
webservice10
adp10
javascript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/Claim-for-Crown-Court-Defence
May 2015 - Mar 2022
Claim for Crown Court Defence, formerly Advocate Defence Payments (ADP), aka Crime Billing Online (CBO)
Contributions:1098 reviews, 3242 commits, 2469 PRs in 6 years 11 months
crime-billing-onlineclaimrubycrown-court-defencecrown
ministryofjustice/laa-fee-calculator
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
Fee calculator for LAA
Contributions:19 reviews, 166 commits, 131 PRs in 3 years 10 months
calculatorlaa-get-paidfee
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