John Ashmead
Database Developer And DBA
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ashmead is a seasoned Database Developer and DBA with over three decades of hands-on experience and 12 years focused on modern web and manufacturing systems. As sole developer/DBA at Nistica he built and maintained a global PostgreSQL-backed production system (Ruby on Rails + HTML5/JS on Linux) that controls factory lines across the US, Vietnam, and China, dramatically reducing line-stop errors and automating supplier and engineering workflows. He brings deep expertise across PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Informix and more, with a particular talent for debugging, performance tuning, and maintainable migrations under security and IP constraints. Founder and principal of Ashmead Software & Consulting since the 1980s, he combines rare institutional knowledge—from Bellcore-era UNIX administration to modern web stacks—with an academic grounding in physics from Harvard and Princeton.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at Harvard UniversityM.S., Physics, M.S., Physics at Princeton University
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Github Skills (2)
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Github contributions (1)
jashmead/talkinvite
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:555 commits in 3 months
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