Available for senior Rails roles

Senior Software Engineer | Ruby on Rails Developer

Senior Software Engineer and Ruby on Rails developer with 5+ years building production web applications across healthcare, financial planning, event technology, automotive messaging, and sports ordering platforms. Current work centers on ClearLink, a HIPAA-conscious phototherapy platform used by clinicians, patients, internal operations, and connected medical device workflows. Strongest fit is a senior Rails role where product judgment, maintainable code, operational reliability, and direct customer context matter.

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Current focus

• Current work centers on ClearLink, a HIPAA-conscious phototherapy platform.
• Production Rails features across patient records, prescriptions, messaging, documents, and admin tooling.
• Connected medical device workflows, secure access, logs, files, and operational state.
• Senior Rails work where product judgment, maintainable code, and reliability matter.

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer | Phothera, formerly Daavlin

Healthcare and phototherapy software platform serving clinicians, patients, operations teams, and connected medical device workflows.

Feb 2024 - Present | Remote / Texas

• Own and extend production Ruby on Rails features for ClearLink, including patient records, prescription workflows, device operations, admin tooling, messaging, and document handling.
• Build and maintain workflows that connect the Rails application to medical device behavior, internal support needs, and infrastructure concerns such as secure access, logs, files, and operational state.
• Implemented remote device support tooling that helps operations teams perform safer resets and maintenance actions with less manual intervention.
• Partner with CTO, device engineering, support, and operations stakeholders to convert ambiguous platform needs into scoped Rails changes that can ship safely.
• Support rebrand and platform transitions while preserving production reliability for users already depending on the system.
• Use AI-assisted development carefully for code review preparation, implementation planning, documentation, test case generation, and release notes without delegating ownership of correctness.

Ruby on Rails Developer | QuintEvents

Event management, ticketing, upgrade, and operations software supporting live event schedules.

Jan 2023 - Feb 2024

• Developed event management, ticketing, and upgrade flows in a production Ruby on Rails application.
• Used Hotwire and Stimulus to ship interactive interfaces while keeping the stack Rails-centered and maintainable.
• Improved API endpoints and database queries used by internal tooling and external consumers.
• Worked with product and operations staff to align technical changes with event requirements, deadlines, and release windows.

Ruby on Rails Developer | Virtue Capital Management / Simplivisor

Financial planning and simulation platform for financial advisors and CPAs.

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

• Built Ruby on Rails features for Simplivisor, a financial planning application used to model advisor scenarios and client-facing projections.
• Reworked the simulation engine to support JSON-configured scenarios instead of a small set of fixed planning options.
• Improved simulation performance enough to support interactive use and faster review by advisors.
• Modeled cash flows, annuities, and time-based financial events in a way that kept results traceable and understandable.
• Worked directly with the founding advisor to validate financial logic, edge cases, and presentation of results.

Ruby on Rails Developer | Snapcell

Video-centered customer engagement and messaging software for the automotive industry.

Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

• Implemented newsletter and autoresponder features in a Ruby on Rails product used for customer engagement.
• Refactored backend services to improve maintainability as product usage and feature surface area increased.
• Integrated external messaging and analytics services used by customer-facing workflows.
• Released features on short timelines while preserving existing behavior in a live SaaS product.

Junior Ruby on Rails Developer | StartupDev / StadiumDrop

Concessions ordering platform integrated into sports venue and team application workflows.

Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

• Contributed to the REST API supporting food ordering inside the Dallas Cowboys application experience.
• Worked with an external vendor to keep integration behavior stable during live event conditions.
• Assisted with deployments and release processes in a startup environment.
• Wrote production Ruby on Rails code under senior developer review.

Ruby on Rails Apprentice | Abdullah Hashim / PerfectQuran

Faith-based Rails application and reviewed open-source learning work.

Jun 2020 - Dec 2020

• Apprenticed under a senior Ruby on Rails developer with emphasis on practical Rails development.
• Contributed to reviewed open-source Rails work while learning MVC structure, Git branching, pull requests, and testing basics.
• Built early discipline around reading existing code before changing behavior.