Sammy Larbi
Proprietor Programmer at Self-Employed
Richmond, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSammy Larbi is a seasoned software engineer and proprietor programmer with 17 years of experience building education-focused products—curriculum management, lesson planning, BI, and discipline systems—plus prior backend work for publishers and online universities. He blends hands-on full‑stack development with open-source contributions in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, notably adding multitenancy and UX improvements to the Rapidfire survey app and enhancing composite primary key support in ActiveRecord. His background includes a stint as a pre-doctoral bioinformatics researcher where he wrote analysis software for DNA read statistics, reflecting a comfort with both applied research and production systems. Based in Richmond, Texas, he runs his own shop since 2011 and brings a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to solving complex data and workflow problems.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of HoustonHS Diploma, HS Diploma at Dulles
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Github Skills (23)
database-migrations10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
database-design10
activerecord10
database-migration10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
sql-server9
html8
javascript7
script7
jscript7
hash6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
composite-primary-keys/composite_primary_keys
Apr 2012 - Dec 2021
Composite Primary Keys support for Active Record
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sammy primarily focused on enhancing the Active Record features of the `composite_primary_keys` gem. They implemented and refined functionality related to composite primary keys, specifically for count calculations, and HABTM (has_and_belongs_to_many) relationships. Several commits involved refactoring and removing redundant code. Their work included addressing issues with Rails' handling of association deletions and default ordering with composite keys.
railsrubykeysactive-recordcomposite
codemancers/rapidfire
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
Making dynamic surveys should be easy!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 10 PRs, 12 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sammy contributed significantly to the `codemancers/rapidfire` project, a Ruby on Rails survey application. Their work included adding multitenancy support by introducing an `owner_id` and `owner_type` to the `rapidfire_surveys` table and modifying controllers and models to accommodate the changes. Furthermore, the user implemented the ability to add custom content displayed after survey completion, enhancing the user experience. They also worked on editing survey attributes, and improving the checkbox answering functionality.
surveysreacttypescriptrailsruby
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