Chris Selmer

5.0

(47 reviews)

US$50.00

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ABOUT ME

Founder of a Ruby on Rails consultancy, 20+ years of full-stack development in multiple languages

Howdy! If you work with me, you'll find that I'm patient, a good listener, and am great at tracking down annoying bugs. I used to run one of the largest Ruby on Rails shops in the world. I started as a Rails Engineer, shot up the ranks, and eventually ran the company as Partner and de-facto CEO. Before and after, I've worked as a freelance full-stack developer in a wide variety of languages. I started programming in 1997 and have been loving it ever since.

English

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-08:00)

Joined December 2016

EXPERTISE

Ruby on Rails

13 years experience | 16 endorsements

I've been programming in Ruby since 2007, ran one of the world's largest Ruby on Rails consultancies, co-founded the Washington DC Ruby U...

I've been programming in Ruby since 2007, ran one of the world's largest Ruby on Rails consultancies, co-founded the Washington DC Ruby Users Group, and have spoken at multiple Ruby conferences.

Rails 4 Active recordRuby on Rails 4Rails 5ActivemodelRuby Ruby on RailsRuby on rails 3.1Ruby on rails 3.2Ruby on rails3

Ruby

13 years experience | 6 endorsements

I've been programming in Ruby since 2007, ran one of the world's largest Ruby on Rails consultancies, co-founded the Washington DC Ruby U...

I've been programming in Ruby since 2007, ran one of the world's largest Ruby on Rails consultancies, co-founded the Washington DC Ruby Users Group, and have spoken at multiple Ruby conferences.

Rails 4Ruby on Rails 4Sinatra

Rails 4Ruby on Rails 4Sinatra Jekyll Rails 5 Ruby on rails3 Ruby on Rails

Python

2 years experience | 1 endorsement

I've been programming for over 20 years, and have added Python to my coding repertoire over the last several years. Recently I've been do...

I've been programming for over 20 years, and have added Python to my coding repertoire over the last several years. Recently I've been doing a lot of AWS Lambda work with Python, and also using Python to automate tasks.

Python 3 Python 2 Boto3

JavaScript

10 years experience | 5 endorsements

I've been programming in JavaScript since 1998, when I first started doing freelance web development. I don't have as much experience wit...

I've been programming in JavaScript since 1998, when I first started doing freelance web development. I don't have as much experience with some the more modern JS frameworks out there, but I generally understand how they work and have years of practice debugging JavaScript and coming to the root of problems.

jQuery

Serverless

1 year experience

Serverless is a relatively new framework, but I've been using it since before 1.0 and have gained a great appreciation for how easy it ma...

Serverless is a relatively new framework, but I've been using it since before 1.0 and have gained a great appreciation for how easy it makes deploying Amazon Lambdas.

AWS Python Lambda

AWS Python Lambda AWS Lambda

HTML/CSS

21 years experience | 3 endorsements

I've been hand-coding HTML and CSS since 1998.

PostgreSQL

11 years experience

I've been programming with databases for over 20 years, and Postgres has been my database of choice for Rails (and other) projects for pr...

I've been programming with databases for over 20 years, and Postgres has been my database of choice for Rails (and other) projects for probably the last 10.

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(47 reviews)

Steve Guntrip

September 2017

I'm learning Rails and Chris performed a review of an application I've been working on. He left changes in a branch of my code, some great notes, and took the time to have a chat with me. I was left feeling really encouraged to continue learning and my confidence was increased. Now to incorporate those changes! Thanks so much!

Liz Bayardelle

May 2017

Chris was awesome and fixed several problems in one session. He even walked me through a portion that I had planned to do after the session (saving me a great deal of time troubleshooting independently).

Removed User

May 2017

Great help thanks!

Igor

May 2017

Quick to asses the problem and find a solution.

Arnold Daniels

May 2017

Chris was a great help in finding the problem and getting it solved. Thanks Chris.

Raj

April 2017

Always helpful!

Removed User

April 2017

Great experience. He smoothly helped me accomplished my project goals. Seemed both professional and relatable.

john schmidt

April 2017

Very quick and knowledgable!

Mark Pucket

April 2017

Chris rocks ! Superb first experience! I'll be back !!

Cade Embery

April 2017

Great guy, very friendly easy to understand and helpful

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

delegate_cached

Allows caching of delegated attributes.

Ruby

EMPLOYMENTS

Ruby on Rails developer

CSELMER LLC

2016-01-01-Present

I help start-ups and established companies from all over the world build amazing Ruby on Rails web apps.

Ruby

HTML/CSS

Ruby on Rails

Ruby

HTML/CSS

Ruby on Rails

Heroku

Bootstrap

JavaScript

AWS Lambda

Rails 5

Partner

Unlikely Ventures

2012-01-01-2015-06-01

Incubate and invest in technology companies: :: Divshot (acquired by Firebase/Google) :: Intridea (acquired by Mobomo) :: MyEnergy (acq...

Incubate and invest in technology companies: :: Divshot (acquired by Firebase/Google) :: Intridea (acquired by Mobomo) :: MyEnergy (acquired by Nest, acquired by Google) :: Scalr :: Socialspring (acquired by UnitedWeb)

Entrepreneurship

Rails Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Client Services, Board Member

Intridea, Inc

2007-10-01-2015-06-01

Intridea was one of the first consultancies to focus exclusively on Ruby on Rails, and grew to become one of the largest Ruby on Rails sh...

Intridea was one of the first consultancies to focus exclusively on Ruby on Rails, and grew to become one of the largest Ruby on Rails shops in the world. We worked with everyone from early- stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. :: Hired as Rails Engineer, quickly showed value and promoted to co-founder status. :: Served as engineer, architect, team lead, project manager, and client contact for Ruby on Rails and mobile projects. :: Handled or oversaw company-wide issues such as budgeting, payroll, hiring, and HR. :: Eventually ran entire consulting wing of the 50-person company. :: Helped grow company revenue to $7MM, landing us in the Inc. 500 :: Hired a CEO to replace me in 2014 and sold the company in 2015.

Ruby on Rails