Kenneth Lee
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- SummaryGeneralist Software Developer, core part of my experience is getting startups off the ground. Expert in Ruby on Rails, now focussing on HTML5 and mobile applications, with APIs originating from web applications.
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 * Amazon EC2/S3 * MySQL Mobile applications * HTML5 / CSS3 / Javascript * Ajax * PhoneGap * Sencha Touch * iOS Deployment * Git/SVN * Scaling * Caching Metrics and AnalyticsExperience- Jan 2008 - PresentCTO / Diary.comI 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.comA 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 / LogicaCMGWorked 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
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Interests:Open source software, Wing Chun
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Repositories
- 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 API2 forks / 5 watchers / Pushed Sep 16, 08
- Fixture replacement for focused and readable tests.258 forks / 2099 watchers / Pushed May 18, 12
- Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord853 forks / 4203 watchers / Pushed May 18, 12
- FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.182 forks / 1630 watchers / Pushed May 16, 12
- A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.409 forks / 3780 watchers / Pushed May 04, 12
- Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.128 forks / 611 watchers / Pushed Apr 25, 12
- Easy Akismet and TypePad AntiSpam integration for Rails19 forks / 223 watchers / Pushed Apr 22, 12
- A popular and flexible JavaScript DatePicker for RubyOnRails (and others)118 forks / 422 watchers / Pushed Mar 13, 12
- Project Sprouts is an open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR Flash and Flex projects46 forks / 225 watchers / Pushed Mar 11, 12
- A Ruby on Rails blogging app for the fashionable developer. It's better than Mephisto or SimpleLog277 forks / 779 watchers / Pushed Feb 25, 12
- Pagination library for Rails 3, Sinatra, Merb, DataMapper, and more446 forks / 3294 watchers / Pushed Jan 31, 12
- Essential Tools for developing Javascript in TextMate53 forks / 632 watchers / Pushed Dec 20, 11
- Rails plugin to add extra searching functionality to models.1 fork / 39 watchers / Pushed Dec 07, 11
- A Ruby on Rails plugin (pre-Rails 3.1) that allows easy implementation of the TinyMCE editor into your applications.69 forks / 481 watchers / Pushed Oct 19, 11
- Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify611 forks / 1871 watchers / Pushed Oct 11, 11
- Rails plugin: provides automatic navigation for RESTful architectures, and has simple support for those that aren't.24 forks / 120 watchers / Pushed Oct 05, 11
- Treat an ActiveRecord model as a file attachment, storing its patch, size, content type, etc.223 forks / 1065 watchers / Pushed Aug 31, 11
- A universal interface to import email contacts from various providers including Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and Plaxo.156 forks / 539 watchers / Pushed Aug 31, 11
- Generates common user authentication code for Rails/Merb, with a full test/unit and rspec suite and optional Acts as State Machine support built-in.257 forks / 1677 watchers / Pushed Aug 17, 11
- ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.64 forks / 377 watchers / Pushed Jan 12, 11
- Open source, web-based agile project management, featuring: Goal planner, Story management, Issue-tracker, Code review, SCM Integration, Wiki & Blog. It is intended to assist the collaborative aspect of work carried out by software development teams.51 forks / 420 watchers / Pushed Nov 20, 10
- Piston is a utility that eases vendor branch management. This repository is a complete reimplementation of Piston to provide different backends, depending on the repositories and working copies you pistonize from.22 forks / 124 watchers / Pushed Sep 14, 10
- Photo upload demonstration using Ruby on Rails, SWFUpload and AttachmentFu9 forks / 85 watchers / Pushed Sep 09, 10
- Your favorite URL-shortening service in all of Ruby land31 forks / 189 watchers / Pushed Jun 07, 10
- Ground-up rewrite of Beast, a Ruby on Rails forum.125 forks / 563 watchers / Pushed Aug 06, 09
