Wade Minter
Founder And COO at Fourth Line, LLC
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWade Minter is a seasoned software leader and founder with 25 years of experience building and shipping Ruby/Rails products, currently serving as Founder & COO of Suggestion Ox and Product Principal at Dualboot Partners in Raleigh. He combines hands-on engineering and product leadership—having scaled teams from startups to Fortune 500 engagements—and has deep expertise in cloud integrations, devops, and rapid delivery. An active open-source contributor, Wade added Rackspace support to prominent Ruby libraries like Fog and CarrierWave, reflecting a long-standing footprint in the Ruby ecosystem. Beyond tech leadership he brings a knack for audience-facing roles: he’s the public address announcer for the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes and invests in Triangle startups, blending product intuition with community-facing storytelling.
25 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at William & Mary
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Github Skills (8)
file-storage10
cloud-computing10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
configuration-management9
rspec8
excon7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave
Dec 2009 - Feb 2011
Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Wade implemented support for Rackspace Cloud Files storage within the CarrierWave gem. This involved creating a `CloudFiles` storage class, defining file operations (store, retrieve, delete), and integrating it with the existing configuration system. The user also addressed related issues like handling content types and CDN URLs. Furthermore, the user enhanced the project with caching and other quality-of-life improvements.
ruby-on-railsruby-gemsinatrarailsruby
fog/fog
Mar 2011 - Jun 2011
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Wade primarily contributed to adding and enhancing Rackspace cloud service support within the Fog Ruby library. Their work involved modifying the compute, storage, and CDN components to accommodate Rackspace's internal Servicenet. These changes included updating authentication, host configurations, and SSL verification to ensure proper functionality within the Servicenet environment. Additional commits involved general code maintenance and refactoring within the project, including file updates and format fixes.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
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