Kenneth Lee
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Generalist Software Developer, core part of my experience is getting startups off the ground. Expert in Ruby on Rails and full-stack experience end-to-end.
I have a keen interest in scaleability and improving deployment of large production environments. Everything from one button deployments and low loss backup restorations.
Personal goals are improving security in all architectures and deployment strategies.
Specialties: Web applications * Ruby on Rails / Sinatra * Amazon EC2/S3 * MySQL * Redis / Resque * Nginx / Unicorn Mobile applications * HTML5 / CSS3 / Javascript * PhoneGap Deployment * Git/SVN * Amazon Web Services and other VPS * Capistrano * Metrics and Analytics * Optimisation The most important speciality is learning whatever I need to get the job done.Experience- Sept 2012 - PresentSenior Developer / Friday
- Jan 2008 - Sept 2012CTO / Diary.com
I manage and develop all aspects of technology within the business. I also influence business direction, keeping focus and key processes in running the business.
- Sept 2006 - Dec 2007Software Developer / Bragster.com
A Ruby on Rails software developer working with MySQL database. Working on all aspects of creating a brand new website aimed at the social networking and online gambling arena. *Update* - Funded by Intel in 2008 and Bragster has now been acquired by Guiness World Records in 2010.
- Sept 2004 - Sept 2006Software Developer / LogicaCMG
Worked as a Java Developer working on enterprise applications for the rail industry. Technologies include Oracle Databases and Hibernate, and popular J2EE (JEE) stacks.
- 2004 - 2006Java Developer (Consultant of LogicaCMG) / Network Rail
Education-
2001 - 2004University of DurhamBSc Honours in Software Engineering
Additional Information-
Interests:Open source software, Wing Chun
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Tweets
- @moomerman test failed
- Too much saladJun 12, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @CrumplerUK Why is http://t.co/JB8bNNzZl1 not showing any UK stores?Jun 11, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Finally, Motorway signs actually telling people to stop hogging the middle lane. #getthefuckoutoftheway
- Sneak peek of some of my wedding photos http://t.co/5hFy5Mbgzr @moomerman @aperfect @asmega (lots more to process)May 24, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @aperfect Happy B'day!May 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Dusting the cobwebs off my desk, first day back at work after getting Le Married!May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @aperfect Thanks! really good photos! And thanks again for helping us the day wouldn't have gone so well without you, @asmega & @moomerman
- This fox needs to stand behind the yellow line. http://t.co/LmmSt2Ynic
- @aperfect You'll like this... http://t.co/hrk6LQ1MinMay 01, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @housetreeuk estate agents have disappeared, haven't been able to contact for the last 2 weeks.Apr 13, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @aperfect It get stilly when they say can you spend 10 minutes
- I don't want to fill in your bloody surveyApr 03, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @tastecard Bit disappointed this year you auto-renewed my subscription rather than opt-in, I probably would have renewed, next year I won'tApr 02, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Just had a poor tuna sandwich, however I saw Boris Johnson this morning on a non-boris bikeMar 18, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @superdrug Your online registration process is broken can't sign up.Mar 09, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Annoying when books aren't in Kindle format #firstworldproblemsFeb 27, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @christianp: Good morning, spider friend! Don't mind if I take my shower, do you? ...... Now where did you go? Spider friend? #aaaaaa ...Feb 27, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- LOL T-Mobile / EE have to call me back because they're system is taking more than 5 minutes to load my account details better, than holdingFeb 19, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Repositories
- A ruby gem for sending and receiving messages from a Stomp protocol compliant message queue. Includes: failover logic, ssl support./ Pushed Apr 13, 13
- Feature detect HTML5 and CSS3 features, with handy css and javascript hooks so you can progressively enhance to your heart's content.1 watcher / Pushed Jun 08, 12
- A FileReader polyfill for Internet Explore and Safari using Flash1 watcher / Pushed Apr 03, 12
- Ground-up rewrite of Beast, a Ruby on Rails forum.1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Jul 12, 09
- Mole is a simple project time tracking tool using the sinatra web framework1 watcher / Pushed Dec 27, 08
- Frog is a full-featured blog application written using the sinatra web framework1 watcher / Pushed Nov 10, 08
- A simple ruby gem to use Microsoft's Live Contact API1 fork / 5 watchers / Pushed Sep 16, 08
- A rich Ruby API and DSL for the ElasticSearch search engine408 forks / 1318 watchers / Pushed Jun 18, 13
- An iOS/OSX bridge for sending messages between Obj-C and JavaScript in UIWebViews/WebViews132 forks / 737 watchers / Pushed Jun 14, 13
- File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar, validation and preview images, audio and video for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads. Works with any server-side platform (Google App Engine, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads.2229 forks / 11661 watchers / Pushed Jun 14, 13
- Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines252 forks / 5334 watchers / Pushed Jun 12, 13
- Maintain translations in Google Docs and export them to your Rails project.14 forks / 27 watchers / Pushed Jun 10, 13
- Pimp your git workflow. Just type pull, branch, merge, push15 forks / 162 watchers / Pushed May 09, 13
- A bookmarklet for highlighting jargon words on any page11 forks / 21 watchers / Pushed Feb 08, 13
- A FileReader polyfill for Internet Explore and Safari using Flash27 forks / 111 watchers / Pushed Jan 23, 13
- what I learnt by reading and testing rubymotion code from other developers8 forks / 229 watchers / Pushed Dec 07, 12
- Source of bookmarkly.com, a visual bookmarking site74 forks / 483 watchers / Pushed Jul 19, 12
- Feature detect HTML5 and CSS3 features, with handy css and javascript hooks so you can progressively enhance to your heart's content.1 watcher / Pushed Jun 08, 12
- A FileReader polyfill for Internet Explore and Safari using Flash1 watcher / Pushed Apr 03, 12
- iOS-app template with lots of common tasks solved400 forks / 2536 watchers / Pushed Feb 28, 12
- Official Ya2YAML repository; Ya2YAML is "yet another to_yaml". It emits YAML document with complete UTF8 support (string/binary detection, "\u" escape sequences and Unicode specific line breaks).11 forks / 16 watchers / Pushed Feb 19, 12
- A scheduler process to replace cron. Please see the maintained fork:43 forks / 381 watchers / Pushed Oct 14, 11
- Rails 3 library that uploads all static assets to amazon s3 with a unique id encoded into the path21 forks / 169 watchers / Pushed Sep 20, 11
- Custom calendar picker for Sencha Touch14 watchers / Pushed Jun 03, 11
- A framework for building behaviour-driven tests in fluent Java.7 forks / 22 watchers / Pushed Jan 20, 11
