Brad Chase

Brad Chase

Mentor
5.0
(32 reviews)
US$30.00
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ABOUT ME
Always happy to chat! – Haskell | Prolog | Ruby | JavaScript
Always happy to chat! – Haskell | Prolog | Ruby | JavaScript

I believe the barrier to entry for many beginning developers is nailing down the fundamentals, and that's what I'm here to help with.

The fundamentals aren't necessarily the hardest to grasp, but "unconscious competence" can often blind more senior developers to their existence. As a result, their explanation tends to be omitted from most tutorials, replaced instead with words like "just", "of course", and "trivially". I'm sure I've been guilty of these omissions myself, but when I have a mentee in front of me that's stuck, I'm dogged in my pursuit to identify where the gaps in their knowledge lie, and how to forever sew them shut.

And because this road can be a long and difficult one, I also know that it helps to have a friend by your side through the journey; so more than just helping to navigate new concepts and technical issues, I want to serve as moral support for others who are now where I once was. Through the entire journey, but especially at the beginning, I think having this support can make or break, and I don't want to see anyone broken.

As for me, I love learning languages, both programming and natural.

When it comes to human languages, I can both read and converse in Japanese, but I'm currently focused on increasing my vocabulary in hopes of comprehending more complicated subject matter.

In the world of programming, I love Ruby, tolerate JavaScript (grin), and am currently most interested in functional languages. Previously I had been using Elixir quite a bit, but at the moment ML-style languages like Haskell, Elm, and PureScript have been holding most of my attention.

Things I'd particularly love to help you with include:

  • Haskell (getting started or exploring new concepts)
  • Elm and/or JavaScript (building in-browser applications)
  • Ruby (getting started or leveling up)
  • Rails (picking projects, implementing features, exploring libraries, etc.)
  • web development in general (front- or back-end)

If any of this sounds like what you're looking for in a mentor, please don't hesitate to get in touch, even if you'd just like to chat. I'll be looking forward to hear from you!

Japanese, English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined September 2018
EXPERTISE
2 years experience | 3 endorsements
1 year experience
10 years experience | 6 endorsements
6 years experience | 3 endorsements
6 years experience

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(32 reviews)
Nas Sanou
Nas Sanou
January 2019
Brad is an Amazing and knowledgeable developer. Thank you Brad~~
Oscar Zhang
Oscar Zhang
December 2018
monopoly(brad):- only_prolog_teacher(brad).
Oscar Zhang
Oscar Zhang
November 2018
helped with prolog for an AI module. Good solid explanations
Nikolaos kypri
Nikolaos kypri
November 2018
In my experience Brad had the knowledge, friendly and really helpful going through every process slowly and giving other similar examples so you understand.
Andrew
Andrew
October 2018
Brad was really patient and talked through the potential solution so that I could better understand how it worked. While we didn't come up with a final solution, I am much closer to achieving my goal AND more importantly, I understand why.
Sam Jenkins
Sam Jenkins
October 2018
Brad was awesome. He was extremely helpful in explaining the syntax of Haskell and aided me in figuring out an assignment that I was completely lost in.
Joe
Joe
October 2018
Great all around Ruby and Rails knowledge to help point you in the right direction.
Nas Sanou
Nas Sanou
October 2018
Brad is a great developer and a genuine person. He was able to help me a lot. 5 stars!
Removed User
Removed User
October 2018
Brad is very helpful, he explain everything clearly.
KAMAL KHATIWADA
KAMAL KHATIWADA
October 2018
Awesome!!!
SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
tesseract-elixir
A simple Elixir wrapper for the Tesseract OCR
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cloze
A Ruby cloze deletion module
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EMPLOYMENTS
Co-Founder
Kohort
2016-10-01-Present
- Built front-end SPA in Elm (~9.5k SLOC) for member management system - Prototyped IoT door control device using Node.js, Docker, and re...
- Built front-end SPA in Elm (~9.5k SLOC) for member management system - Prototyped IoT door control device using Node.js, Docker, and resin.io - Implemented real-time communication via Phoenix Channels (WebSockets) - Began building back-end in Haskell (Servant)
Node.js
Haskell
PostgreSQL
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Node.js
Haskell
PostgreSQL
Heroku
Bootstrap
Es6
Elixir
Elm
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Founder
These 8 Bits, LLC
2015-08-01-Present
- Shipped Elm & Rails application for barcode scan-in at MindBody locations - Wrote manuscript for intro to Ruby web application develop...
- Shipped Elm & Rails application for barcode scan-in at MindBody locations - Wrote manuscript for intro to Ruby web application development - Maintained and extended Rails applications
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Heroku
JavaScript
Elm
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Director of Technology
Orizant
2013-11-01-Present
- Delivered a specialized form-builder application targeted at the food safety industry - Built front-end form builder in Backbone.js, ba...
- Delivered a specialized form-builder application targeted at the food safety industry - Built front-end form builder in Backbone.js, back-end in Rails - Maintained application in production (Heroku) and dealt with basic performance issues
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Backbone.js
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PROJECTS
Mentoring to employment in development
2014
A few years ago, a good friend from high school got back in touch with me and told me he wanted to break into development, but he wasn't...
A few years ago, a good friend from high school got back in touch with me and told me he wanted to break into development, but he wasn't sure what to do. He had already tried juggling a full-time job and family with college, but that hadn't worked out very well, and so he was looking for another way. I knew there was one. Looking back at my own experience in college, my professors used out-dated tech and didn't bother to teach even the basics of web development, so everything I needed to know for my job as a web developer I had learned on my own, and I believed that he had it in him to do the same. Fast forward about a year's worth of my friend's dedicated effort, and he landed a gig doing ETL at a Fortune 500 company, where he still works today, years later, as a senior developer. In talking about the experience later, he said that the technical guidance I had given him had been useful, but that the thing he thought made the biggest difference to him was having someone there to encourage him and to continually remind him that he was on the right track and that he _could_ do it. Getting to play that part in helping him transform his life for himself and his family has probably been _the_ most worthwhile thing I've done in life, and ever since I've wanted to do more. Sadly though, no one else has come looking for my help since, so I'm setting out to find them myself. And so here I am; this time to help you.
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