Phil Monroe

I am a polyglot developer at heart and like building big, scalable projects with Ruby and Rails. I have spent a lot of time thinking about distributed systems and about how software should work together to improve people's lives. I am always trying to learn something new to improve myself and my skills. CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR: - Coffee/Tea/Drinks! I love meeting new people and learning about their experiences. If you would like, let's grab a drink and talk. Favorite topics include, but are not limited to software, tech, politics, economics, and self-improvement. -> https://calendly.com/philmonroe/chat NOT LOOKING FOR: - Engineering Outsourcing. I am thrilled to be working with my very talented colleagues and If we need to contract out a project, we will come to you. TECHNICAL Experience: Programming Languages: Ruby, JS, Scala, Swift, Java, Node.js, C/C++, HTML, CSS, UNIX Scripting(zsh, bash, sh) Frameworks: Ruby - Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Hotwire, Sinatra, Rack, Capybara, Rspec, Rake JS - ES6, React, Webpack, Turbo / Turbolinks Mobile - iOS, Android Scala/Java - Spark + Spark Streaming, Scalding, Hadoop, Dropwizard, Finagle DevOps: Service-Oriented Architectures, Heroku, Amazon Web Services, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, nginx, redis, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, ELK(Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Zookeeper, Terraform, Kafka, VMWare Center Particularly interested in these kinds of problems: - Distributed Systems + Architecture - Product Analytics - Observability and Monitoring - Full-text Search - Social commerce + payments