Toby Rumans
Principal Software Engineer at Mechanical Orchard
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolToby Rumans is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of web development experience, currently leading engineering efforts at Mechanical Orchard. He combines deep Ruby on Rails expertise with front-end performance know-how from roles at Amazon and Twitter, where he optimized React code served to millions and improved project estimation across a 60-person org. Toby is comfortable across Windows and Linux, cloud and private deployments, and has hands-on experience authoring backend features in Go for the widely used Concourse CI project. A pragmatic engineering leader, he favors TDD, agile practices, and subservient leadership to empower teams and improve delivery accuracy. Known for an aptitude for rapid debugging and learning new codebases, he moves quickly from exploration to high-impact contributions. Outside the obvious, he’s proven he can both run solo projects end-to-end and coordinate multi-person teams while driving technical process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Digital Media including Web development Web design and Digital audio production. Minor in Business, BA Digital Media including Web development Web design and Digital audio production. Minor in Business at University of Denver
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Github Skills (13)
testing10
go10
api10
apidoc10
cicd10
concourse9
callback6
krl6
internet-explorer6
authentication6
browser6
cross-browser6
facebook6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
concourse/concourse
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Concourse is a container-based continuous thing-doer written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:283 commits, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily focused on adding and modifying features related to pausing and unpausing jobs within the Concourse CI/CD system. Their contributions included implementing API endpoints for pausing and unpausing, adding new functionalities, and modifying the behavior of existing features to accommodate pausing. They demonstrated a deep understanding of the system's internal APIs and testing frameworks, specifically by creating and modifying tests to verify new functionality.
golangcontainersdoergocdelm
tobocop/lock-pool
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:199 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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