Omar Qureshi - United Kingdom (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Omar Qureshi

United Kingdom (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Company: Scholastic

Website: http://www.omarqureshi.net

About Me

Rails developer for two years at Scholastic UK, experienced with quite advanced Rails development including but not limited to:

• Large scale Rails applications, optimising code readability using modules / polymorphism / shifting business logic to the database
• Cache techniques (via. compression/minification/fragment caching)
• ActiveRecord hackery with composite primary keys without the use of surrogate primary keys
• PostgreSQL – Triggers, views and PL/pgSQL in Rails
• Bash – Automating tasks outside of Rails (cron)
• Deployment (debian with nginx)
• Debugging (including framework / application race conditions)

My other links

Mentoring since August 30, 2009

I can mentor in these topics

• ActiveRecord
• ActiveResource
• AJAX
• Authentication
• Background Processing
• ERb
• factory_girl
• File Uploads
• Git
• HAML
• JQuery
• Mocha
• Rails 2.x
• Rails REST
• Ruby
• Scaling
• Security
• Subversion
• System Administration
• Test-driven development
• Test::Unit