Noah Gibbs
Email: redacted (not currently looking via recruiters)
GitHub: noahgibbs
Portfolio: https://codefol.io/portfolio

Summary: Ruby on Rails developer, author and speaker; data science and visualization; Full-Stack Web Developer; Deep C, OS and systems experience

Work Experience

Shopify, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Inverness, Scotland - 2021-2024

• Co-author of "YJIT: A Basic Block Versioning JIT Compiler for CRuby" for VMIL '21
• Primary author of yjit-metrics for benchmarking and reporting
• Built speed.yjit.org for continuous benchmarking, latest benchmarks and graphs, etc.
• Worked on CRuby internals since YJIT is a fork of CRuby (a.k.a. MRI)

Entrepreneur/Founder, Codefol.io, Inverness, Scotland - 2013 to present

• Wrote and sell Rebuilding Rails, an ebook and video class on understanding Ruby on Rails by building a Rails-like fully functional Ruby MVC framework.
• Wrote and sell Mastering Software Technique, an ebook on improving practical coding skill via a learning and practice regimen from a nontechnical role with a longer history of teaching.
• Other contract consulting work, esp. related to SkotOS
• Wrote articles, email, marketing and everything else; Did all development, customer support, operations and other supporting work

Ruby Fellow, AppFolio, Fremont, CA - May 2016 - Dec 2019

• My Ruby benchmarks were repeatedly cited by Ruby's creator as one of the official measures of progress toward Ruby 3x3
• Wrote and maintained the Rails Ruby Bench and Rails Simpler Bench benchmarks for the core Ruby language
• Spoke at Ruby conferences, including RubyKaigi (2017,2018,2019), RailsConf, Southeast Ruby, RubyConf (USA), RubyConf Malaysia and others
• Wrote over 40 articles about Ruby configuration, performance and optimization at engineering.appfolio.com; frequently cited in Ruby Weekly

Architect and Principal Engineer, Daqri, Sunnyvale, CA - Mar 2015 - May 2016

• Architect and Principal Engineer for 4DStudio, an Augmented Reality scene design interface
• Served as Team Lead, Infrastructure
• Separated and designed smaller services from an initial monolith
• Reliability and DevOps/SRE work to improve overall service resilience
• Mentored engineers, gave tech talks, recorded tech videos.
• Ruby, Rails, Git, Application Servers, Puppet

Lead Rubyist, OnLive, Mountain View, CA - Mar 2013 - Feb 2015

• Lead of Analytics - archaeology, maintenance, extension and replacement of a neglected Java/Esper/MySQL analytics system.
• Acted as Principal Ruby Engineer company-wide, building tools and providing training and mentoring.
• Served as team lead and manager, analytics team
• Replaced ancient Adobe Air app and Pentaho Reports server with a new, much smaller Ruby on Rails analytics dashboard.
• Ruby and Cassandra architect for new HTTP platform infrastructure.
• Mentored engineers, gave tech talks, wrote and socialized eng blog.
• Wrote tools and procedures for SVN-to-Git transition.
• Transitioned Rails apps for DevOps to new tools and Rails versions
• Ruby, Cassandra, svn, Git, Kafka, Coral8, Pentaho, Java, MySQL, Esper, InfoBright, more

Tools and Infrastructure Engineer, Ooyala, Mountain View, CA - Sep 2011 - Mar 2013

• Co-architect, Hastur metrics & monitoring system
• Wrote and maintained tools for metrics, monitoring, dark deploys, support engineering, logging, code review, various
• Other infrastructure tools including documentation, storage and query.
• Rails, Cassandra, ZeroMQ, git, Hadoop, various

Analytics Software Engineer, Ooyala, Mountain View, CA - Mar 2011 - Sep 2011

• Wrote and maintained Hadoop, Cassandra and MySQL analytics system
• Co-built centralized logging accumulation system, 33k lines/sec
• Wrote prototype for analyzing playback errors and drilling into them
• Wrote and maintained player, mapreduce and UI code for analytics
• Acted as general Rails/Ruby/RVM/rbenv/Bundler/git guru and mentor
• Ruby on Rails, Hadoop, Cassandra, Sinatra, MySQL, Scope, Shoulda, git, various

Assistant Consulting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University West, Mountain View, CA - 2011-2012

• Tutored CMU Masters of Software Engineering students in Ruby on Rails
• Part-time, simultaneous with Ooyala. Rails, git, Devise, various tools

Software Engineer, On-Site.com, Mountain View, CA - Oct 2009 - Mar 2011

• Wrote and maintained business reports in Ruby on Rails
• Wrote and maintained infrastructure and models in Java and JRuby
• Transitioned On-Site to using Rails migrations and other best practices
• Added MongoDB database and reporting infrastructure for site metrics
• Gave a talk about how we use JRuby at On-Site
• JRuby, Ruby on Rails, Java, JSP, MongoDB, DB2, RSpec, jQuery, git, SVN

Software Engineer, ACCESS Systems Americas, Sunnyvale, CA - May 2007 - Oct 2009

• Architect and co-implementor, 'Force' OpenGL UI server for ALP 3.0
• Transitioned large body of apps to new Force UI framework
• Guided customers in writing apps and graphics for Force
• Worked with Clutter OSS project, submitted patches
• UI refresh work ('tiger team'), ALP 2.x
• Extended and maintained GTK+ apps and middleware for ALP 2.x
• C/C++, Perl, 32-bit embedded Linux, ALP (ACCESS Linux Platform)

Software Engineer, PeakStream, Inc. Redwood City, CA - Feb 2006 - April 2007

• Wrote, upgraded & maintained Python code-generation framework for stream processing
• Added code-reuse sections to optimize recompiles for stream processing
• Deployed Win32 job queueing system based on Platform Software's LSF
• C/C++, Python, Perl, Linux, Win32, Visual Studio

Software Engineer, Sharpcast, Inc. Palo Alto, CA - August 2005 - January 2006

• Implemented new Win32 GUI photo viewing application for desktop and mobile
• Wrote image thumbnail and conversion server for Linux and Win32
• Wrote eval apps for JPEG2000 libraries incl. Kakadu and LuraTech
• Wrote multi-format image loading and manipulation libraries based on Kakadu
• Ported several libraries, incl. parts of ACE and STLport to WinCE platforms
• C++, Win32 MFC, Visual Studio, PocketPC, Windows Mobile

Software Engineer, Tapwave, Inc. Mountain View, CA - June 2004 - July 2005

• Ported FFMPEG libraries to PalmOS
• Integrated Kinoma video framework into PalmOS applications
• Implemented LcdOverlay hardware acceleration library for TapWave devices
• C, Win32, Visual Studio, ARM ADS toolsuite, PalmOS, Linux

Software Engineer, NVidia, Inc. Santa Clara, CA - April 2003 - March 2004

• Maintainer for IA64 Linux graphics drivers; upgrades to new cards and drivers
• Linux/ia32 desktop graphics driver maintenance and debugging work
• Worked on non-X11 embedded Linux driver libraries, tools and setup
• Linux (iTanium and x86), Win32, gcc, vtune and icc tools

Software Engineer, Broadcom, Inc. San Jose, CA - March 2002 - April 2003

• Worked on Porting Interface code for bcm97115, 7110, and other chips on CC, CGMS, WSS and TeleText formats, with HDTV support. Linux & Win32 platforms, C. Some documentation tool testing using Perl.
• Win32, Visual Studio, C

OS Software Engineer, Palm Inc. Santa Clara, CA - March 2000 - March 2002

• PalmOS 'Sahara', pre-6.0 - Launcher and Expansion work, plugin component manager
• PalmOS 5.0 Launcher & Expansion work on ARM processor, including SmartMedia
• Integrated storage and filesystem support into OS APIs incl. SD/MMC and RAMdisk. Performed Launcher app integration work for new APIs
• Designed and wrote HostFS, a developer tool to mount desktop directories on Poser
• Win32, MacOS 9, CodeWarrior, VC++, C, 68K assembly

Software Engineer, NOW Solutions, Inc. Santa Clara, CA - March 1999 to March 2000

• Implemented realtime detection for hydraulic sensor features, plus analysis tools.
• Programmed device drivers for pressure sensor, autogyro (compass)
• Wrote and supported RIPC, an automatic code generation tool in Perl that turns C++ headers into Proxy/Stub pairs for CORBA-like RPC.
• Ported multithreaded OO vehicle control apps and infrastructure to WinCE.
• Embedded Windows, C++, Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe

Software Engineer, MetaCreations Corporation, Carpinteria, CA - June '98 to Sept '98

• Worked on Bryce, a ray-tracer, and several unpublished speculative projects
• Windows and MacOS 9, C++, Visual Studio

Dylan programmer for Gwydion Group, Pittsburgh, PA - May '95 to Aug '96

• Worked on Dylan projects including Melange, a tool for C callout.

Computer Experience, Platforms and Languages

Primary Languages: Ruby, Javascript, C/C++, Java
Primary Platforms: Linux, Mac OS X
Some Tool Specialties: Git, Rails, Rack, Chef, Vagrant, Cassandra, RVM/rbenv/bundler

I have used many, many tools and languages. I can learn yours.

Personal Products and Projects

• My interactive portfolio of work is located at codefol.io/portfolio.
• I've spoken at RubyConf, RailsConf, RubyKaigi and Datastax's Cassandra Summit, among many others.
• I wrote and sell Rebuilding Rails, a Ruby on Rails ebook and video class which has made around US $45k as of 2020
• I wrote and sell Mastering Software Technique, a better form of coding exercise to improve the practical skill of coding.
• Open source projects can be found at GitHub and in my portfolio
• Co-inventor, US Patent no. 8024708 — Systems and methods for debugging an application running on a parallel-processing computer system.
• I built a DGD programming language documentation web site and maintained it until around 2010: http://phantasmal.sourceforge.net/DGD

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
B.S. Computer Science and B.S. Mathematics May 1998

Miscellaneous

US citizen, teaching experience, professionally trained massage therapist and hypnotherapist; long-term UK visa

I'm not currently interested in hearing from external recruiters ("headhunters".) The word "currently" may be treated as meaning between 2010 and 2090, inclusive.