I'm currently looking for a position as a web developer in the Bay Area. Specialties and favorite tools: Ruby on Rails and Backbone.js (you can tell I like my MVC). I love Ruby; it's like writing philosophy. I'm also JavaScript and SQL fluent (primarily Postgres). RSpec and Capybara for testing. I've played around with Node.js and that was a thrill. I'd like to work on the full stack somewhere, but I'll be happy anywhere I get to tackle challenging puzzles and learn new things every day. I'd love to keep pair-programming on a regular basis, too.

Before diving head-first into web development I worked in Washington D.C as a freelance researcher and editor where I honed talents for writing and mastering new fields very quickly (e.g. cognitive science, congressional politics, and the ethics of war).

CoffeeDate

A Meetup.com for lonely people hanging out in coffee shops. Uses Rails, Redis, Backbone, several Google APIs, and multithreading to get around Google’s performance restrictions.

Live, Source

Projectsherpa.io

A single-page Basecamp clone written with Rails and Backbone over a week and a half. Uses polymorphic associations, lots of Backbone sub-views, some tricky deeply-nested JSON objects.

Live, Source

JacktiveRecord

A lightweight clone of the Rails’s object-relational mapping system employing Ruby meta-programming.

Source

RubyChess

A modular, object-oriented Chess game in Ruby. It uses inheritance and Ruby's Vector class in interesting ways.

Source

Serpentine

A playable “Snake” game written in JavaScript.

Live, Source

Make contact...

jack.noble@gmail.com

301.233.0222

Github