Ruby on Rails architect and developer
Melbourne Area, Australia
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- Lead Developer at Moneyspyder
- Senior Software Engineer at TOWER Software
- Software Engineer at THIRI Pty Ltd
- Technical Support and Website Manager at GDB International
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Simon Russell’s Summary
Simon Russell’s Specialties:
Ruby (on Rails), C#, Java
C++, C++/CLI
Hibernate, SQL
AJAX, CSS, HTML, Javascript, XSLT
... a whole bunch more stuff. I've been doing this a while, so I've got opinions and skills relating to a wide range of technologies.
Simon Russell’s Experience
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Lead Developer
Moneyspyder
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2006 — September 2009 (3 years 2 months)
At Moneyspyder my team developed a full e-commerce system from scratch using Ruby on Rails. All aspects of e-commerce are catered for, including CMS functionality, fulfillment (including partial despatch, returns and exchanges), customer management and flexible promotions and discounts.
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Senior Software Engineer
TOWER Software
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Development Lead on TRIM Context ICE project -- a new web interface for the TRIM EDM system. The project involved building a completely self-contained web system -- including building a web server from the ground up, along with WebDAV functionality. The Hotmail WebDAV implementation was also reversed engineered, and custom Javascript template engine developed, along with significant AJAX features.
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Software Engineer
THIRI Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 3 months)
THIRI developed a (now defunct) Internet micropayments system. The initial version was done in a language called Bullant; and later moved to Java on Hibernate. I developed various back-end parts of the Bullant system, and parts of the PHP front-end. I also developed a Rails-like framework in PHP for the new system, when it was moved to Java.
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Technical Support and Website Manager
GDB International
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wholesale industry)
November 1998 — December 2001 (3 years 2 months)
Mainly a tech support position, but also managed website, including designing and implementing a complete XSLT based catalogue solution.
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