Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: David Hemmat

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to David Hemmat about his educational background, career choices, and suggestions for developers. David is a web developer who works mainly with Ruby on Rails. In the past few years, David has done work for a number of clients including Condé Nast, Six Red Marbles, ShopKeep, and Couplewise. Currently, David is working on a number of personal and professional development projects.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• David’s background

  • How did you get into programming?
  • David’s first job was being a software developer in the Dominican Republic.

• Ruby on Rails

• Consulting and referrals

• Contract work and being a freelancer

  • Upwork
  • Freelancer
  • Reddit

• Is there anything that you have done with Ruby or in the community that you are particularly proud of?

  • Talks about Ruby on Rails

• What are you working on now?

  • The company and Blue Coding.
  • They are interested in hiring a Ruby on Rails developer. If you are interested in this position e-mail at: hr@bluecoding.com or info@bluecoding.com.

• Hiring

  • Finding someone you can trust to lead the charge.

Links:

• Fresh Books
• Upwork
• Freelancer
• Reddit
• Digital Ocean
• CacheFly
• Blue Coding
• David R. Hemmat’s Website
• David’s E-mail: david@davidhemmat.com
• Medium Account for David Hemmat

Sponsors:

• Digital Ocean

Picks:

David

• Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl
• Codecademy
• Rails Casts
• Platzi

Charles

• Framework Summit
• Ruby Hack
• Microsoft Build
• Podcast Movement