Chris LaBarge

What I Do

I am a web developer from Albany NY who enjoys building new things with new people. I started coding when I was 24 years old and became instantly hooked. Now, six years later I am still just as enthused and driven as ever. I primarily use Rails for application development and Ruby for workflow solutions & scripting. Although I love the Ruby language and its smaller frameworks like Sinatra, I have also built solutions for customers in C# and worked with languages like GO and PHP. I take pride in my problem solving abilities and communication skills with developers and non-developers alike. I am a hard worker, and would like to apply my knowledge to become an asset for you and your team.

Tools I Use

Frameworks: Ruby on Rails - Sinatra - Hugo
Databases: PostgreSQL - MySQL - MongoDB
Version Control: git - Github - Bitbucket
Testing: Rspec - Capybara - PhantomJS - Selenium
Front End: Semantic UI - Bootstrap - JQuery
Development Environment: Ubuntu – i3wm – Zsh – Vim

Experience

MenuBerry, Albany NY

November 2016 - PRESENT | menuberry.org | Creator/Developer

Sole developer of Rails + Semantic UI web application
Restaurant menu app that allows users to create profiles and add content
Tools used: Rails, Rspec, Capybara, PhantomJS, Jquery, Devise Authentication

Contract Work, Remote & Local

December 2016 - PRESENT | Creator/Developer

Static Website development & deployment for small businesses
Web Scraper development & deployment for data extraction
Ruby on Rails app for importing, matching, and exporting data

Greane Tree Technology, Troy NY

July 2015 - September 2016 | Junior Software Developer

Worked with small team using agile development for a Rails app
Took on contract work for existing code bases
Wrote scripts to solve workflow problems for clients
Languages used for projects - Ruby, Javascript, c#, GO