Toby Privett
Ruby Rails Programmer at Snap Lab
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolToby Privett is a seasoned Ruby on Rails developer with 13 years’ experience specialising in rescuing, upgrading and modernising complex, legacy Rails applications across public and private sectors. Based in London, he combines hands-on full-stack skills with a knack for rapidly understanding messy codebases—having led migrations from Rails 4 to 7.1 and Rails 6.1, implemented SSO, CI pipelines and API integrations for government and enterprise clients. He’s adept at balancing delivery and quality, frequently improving test suites, refactoring for maintainability and delivering projects on time and within budget. A former technical architect and co-founder with a Masters in Education and Creative Writing, he brings both systems thinking and strong communication to stakeholder-heavy projects.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Creative Writing, Master of Arts - MA Creative Writing at The Open UniversityWinchester College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (62)
rails10
finder10
ruby10
javascript9
react9
cloud-platform9
application-management8
api8
workspace8
fleet8
nodejs8
rendering8
frontend7
oms6
flutter6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mcagov/waves-app
May 2018 - May 2019
A vessel fleet management application.
Contributions:243 PRs, 489 pushes, 252 branches in 1 year
spring-bootfleet-managementvesselomsfleet
uktrade/digital-workspace
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
DIT's Digital Workspace (legacy Ruby on Rails frontend)
Contributions:157 PRs, 221 pushes, 157 branches in 2 months
ruby-on-railsrailsworkspacerubyrails-frontend
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