Summary
Rolands Bondars is a pragmatic full-stack Ruby on Rails developer with 15 years of experience building data-driven web applications and visually engaging front ends. He excels in small, fast-moving teams and early-stage startups but is also comfortable contributing to larger, product-led organizations—currently helping scale a successful bootstrapped analytics product remotely. Deep Rails expertise (including JRuby, Sidekiq, RSpec and multiple RDBMS) is balanced by a strong appreciation for well-crafted JavaScript UIs from years working on SPAs and visualization tools. He favors TDD/BDD and async collaboration, values clean refactoring of legacy systems, and is selective about product fit and engineering culture. A background in environmental management and entrepreneurship gives him a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to product problems and teamwork.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Environmental management, MSc, Environmental management at Latvijas Universitate