Sam Power
Ember Rails Developer at Common Sort
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSam Power is an Ember/Rails developer with 11 years of experience who currently builds sustainable-fashion tech at Common Sort in Old Toronto. He combines front-end craftsmanship in Ember and responsive CSS with back-end Rails API design, honed during a transition to microservices at Quandl. Sam has experience managing small engineering teams and budgets from his time as a Software Development Manager at Wealthsimple and as Quandl’s events coordinator, showing he balances technical leadership with practical operations. He’s comfortable shipping full-stack features, from Sketch-to-component front ends and BEM-based CSS frameworks to documented Rails APIs deployed on AWS. With a background in psychology and formal training in UX and Rails, he brings user-centered thinking to product development and developer-facing documentation. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who values visual detail, cross-team communication, and clean, testable code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
User Experience Design, User Experience Design at The YMCSummer Academy, Ruby on Rails, Summer Academy, Ruby on Rails at Hacker YouToronto Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (41)
rails10
ruby10
ecommerce9
storefront9
mvc9
solidus9
ruby-on-rails9
spree9
html9
activerecord9
render-html8
shopping-cart8
rake6
routes6
rake-task6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
samkpower/shotgun-web
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:38 PRs, 72 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year
samkpower/ember-render-vendor
Sep 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 3 months
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