Uģis Ozols
Senior Software Engineer at Lanes & Planes GmbH
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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RockstarUģis Ozols is a Senior Software Engineer based in Riga with 15 years of hands-on experience specializing in backend Ruby on Rails development. He currently builds resilient backend systems at Lanes & Planes while running UO Consulting to provide long-term Rails engagements, preferring remote contracts. A long-time open-source contributor to Refinery CMS, he has improved UI, internationalization, data integrity and performance in one of the Rails ecosystem’s popular CMS projects. His career spans healthcare, travel and revenue-cycle systems, giving him deep experience integrating complex CMS and domain-specific workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who values clean refactoring and long-term maintainability. Outside work he balances engineering with family life, bringing a steady, client-focused approach to consulting and product teams.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Latvian
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Github Skills (21)
i18n-node10
internationalization10
rails10
erb10
html10
i18n-js10
ruby-on-rails10
back-end-development9
boolean9
parsing9
front-end-development9
backend9
performance-optimization8
rspec8
refinery-cms6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
refinery/refinerycms-blog
Dec 2010 - May 2014
The very best blogging engine for Refinery CMS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:199 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Uģis primarily contributed to improving the user interface and functionality of the blog engine. Their work included refactoring code, moving text to locale files for internationalization, and implementing features using Rails' link_to methods with confirmation messages. The user also addressed deprecation warnings and refactored the navigation partial, optimizing the application's performance and user experience through code cleanup and moving content to locale files. Further enhancements were made to the data model, including adding tests and ensuring comments were deleted when posts were deleted, and optimization.
cmsrefinery-cmsbloggingblogging-enginerefinery
ugisozols/ember-simple-auth-rails-demo
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Demo showcasing Ember.SimpleAuth with Rails 4.1
Contributions:44 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
railsemberruby
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