Pete Bevin
Senior Ruby Engineer at TUCOWS INC
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPete Bevin is a Senior Ruby Engineer with over 17 years of professional software experience and a B.A. in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, test-driven development, and agile practices, and currently leads development at Hover.com where he architected comprehensive TDD pipelines using Cucumber and RSpec. Previously he improved performance twentyfold and cut support costs by 70% while leading reimplementation and testing efforts for a server-monitoring product, and even authored a pure Java WMI driver to enable agentless Windows monitoring. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Java and C to JavaScript, MySQL and Redis—he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and process change to stabilize troubled projects. Outside work he runs online breast cancer support communities, reflecting a long-standing interest in how the Internet reshapes healthcare.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics and Computation, B.A., Mathematics and Computation at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
3,143reputation
261kreached
31answers
7questions
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Github Skills (103)
html9
struct9
jsdom9
nodejs9
rust8
unity3d8
javascript8
browserify8
cleaner7
elm7
combinator7
hackage7
multithreading7
parser7
compiler7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pbevin/wordfun
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Tools for solving cryptic crosswords: https://www.wordfun.ca/
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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pbevin/jstype
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:504 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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