Nick Schwaderer
Product Engineer at ZAR
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Schwaderer is a product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building Ruby and Rails-driven systems, currently shaping product at ZAR after a production engineering stint at Shopify. He was a core maintainer of Chef’s InSpec—helping automate compliance at scale—and is an active contributor to Ruby on Rails, with changes addressing performance and deprecation edge cases. Nick blends backend infrastructure work with applied machine learning (including a chronic pain prediction project he presented across UK conferences) and has built SMS/chatbot systems and real-time linting tools for InSpec authors. His writing and open-source work are frequently featured in Ruby Weekly, and he runs the PastRubies newsletter, reflecting a commitment to community and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Full Stack RoR, Web Development, Full Stack RoR at Viking Code SchoolLaw with Business Studies BSc (Hons), Law, Law with Business Studies BSc (Hons), Law at University of Plymouth
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Github Skills (12)
application-framework10
activerecord10
app-framework10
web-framework10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
testing9
cancan6
cancancan6
synchronization6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 3 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily revolve around the Rails framework, focusing on enhancements and deprecations. They implemented functionality allowing the creation of new Rails applications to point to the master branch. Furthermore, they addressed performance concerns by preventing the unnecessary watching of translations within gems when reloading is enabled, and deprecated the addition of two Time instances and passing a Time object to Time#since, with accompanying tests. They also deprecated using insert_all/upsert_all with unpersisted records in associations.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
Schwad/shoelace-rails-ui
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
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