Hire Me
Hello There
My name is Nick Schwaderer and I currently live in beautiful Cornwall in the UK.
I grew up in equally beautiful Superior, Montana in the United States, where I worked as a local journalist, sawmill employee, and two-term State Legislator before moving to the UK to work full time as a Ruby on Rails engineer at OceansHQ.
My day job involves solving problems for various government clients around the globe, building exciting new features for Maritime Administrations and maintaining a large flagship SaaS product. Check us out at OceansHQ
On my own time I enjoy unique challenges and work, so if you would like to hire me, feel free to get in touch.
OceansHQ
I was brought on to OceansHQ in early 2016 as a full-time Ruby on Rails lead developer in house in Cornwall, England. Our client list is growing by the quarter and includes around half a dozen national governments, including the United Kingdom.
I spend most of my time working on the VesselHQ system, which allows Maritime Registries to do their work in the 21st Century with a self-hosted, top-of-the-line SaaS framework.
This work includes:
-Implementing feature requests and enhancements requested by our clients or in house using TDD principles
-Refactoring and profiling segments of code to improve performance and reliability
-Building out a suite of over 2,000 tests from scratch
-Bulk data migration during onboarding (from spreadsheets to databases to everything in between)
-Code reviewing pull requests from other developers at OceansHQ
Tooling/Tech
These are the technologies I use everyday on side/personal projects or in my job.
Development
- Ruby on Rails
- Postgres
- ERB
- Haml
- Javascript
- Bootstrap 3/ Bootstrap 4
- CoffeeScript
- CSS/SCSS/Sass
Testing/CI
- Travis-Ci
- Gitlab-Ci
- RSpec
- FactoryGirl
- Capybara/Selenium/Poltergeist
- brakeman
- pronto/rubocop
Workflow
- Slack
- Github
- RocketChat
- Gitlab
- Atom
- Sublime Text 2