Nicolas Rodriguez
Freelance Software Engineer at Nicolas Rodriguez Consulting
France
Summary
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RockstarNicolas Rodriguez is a freelance software engineer based in France with 11 years of hands-on experience spanning SysAdmin, Ruby on Rails back-end development, and DevOps. A former founder of jbox-web, he comfortably moves from bare-metal servers to browser-facing applications, shipping reliable infrastructure and web features. He contributes actively to open-source Ruby projects—improving test suites, cross-database compatibility, and release automation—highlighting a focus on QA, maintainability, and release engineering. Notable work includes core contributions to ajax-datatables-rails and test/compat fixes for the widely used globalize i18n library, showing expertise in both library internals and internationalization. Practical, detail-oriented, and versatile, he blends systems-level thinking with developer-friendly API and test improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (28)
ruby-rails10
i18n-node10
testing10
rails10
datatable10
ruby10
datatables10
php10
saltstack10
minitest10
i18n-js10
activerecord10
i18next10
ruby-on-rails10
test-automation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack-formulas/php-formula
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA EngineerContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas contributed to the PHP formula by adding and fixing tests, demonstrating involvement in the quality assurance and testing aspects of the project. They added new tests for service and configuration aspects, as well as fixing existing tests to ensure accuracy across different distributions. Additionally, the user refactored code by extracting macros to improve maintainability and added support for semantic-release for automating the release process, indicating DevOps-related activities.
globalize/globalize
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data translation.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 24 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on maintaining and improving the test suite for the `globalize/globalize` repository. Their contributions involved fixing deprecation warnings in the MiniTest testing framework and adapting tests for compatibility with different Rails versions (4.2, 5.1). They also modified database configurations for the test environment, ensuring UTF-8 encoding for MySQL.
railstranslationrubyactiverecord-modelstandard-library
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