Cade Truitt
Tools I've Used
- Ruby/Rails (3/4)
- tdd with Rspec
- JavaScript/CoffeeScript
- html5/css (sass/Bourbon/Neat)
- sql/Postgres
- Git
- Heroku
- Many common gems (Sidekiq, Resque, Paperclip/S3, Devise/Authlogic, Sunspot, ActiveAdmin, etc.)
- Former life wielding Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Final Cut Pro
Things I've Done
- Ambitious pull request: Resque 2.0
- Rails Meetup Presentation: Enumerable: Exploring the Dusty Corners
- Rails Meetup Presentation: Postgres Materialized Views with Rails
- Rails Meetup Lightning Talk: Multiple sass Renderers in Rails for Easy White-Labeling
- Nashville Software School Mentor
- Various technical book clubs
- Summa Cum Laude with Honors/National Merit Scholar
Places I've Worked
Freelance March 2008 - Present
/c[a-z]o/
Moonlit Rails development.
Harvest February 2014 - Present
rails developer
Working on Harvest time tracking product.
CentreSource Interactive Agency May 2012 - February 2014
senior lead developer, ruby on rails
Build products in Rails for varied clients using Agile methodologies. Train and mentor junior developers. Notable work includes: custom nightly import and munging of 15-20 million lines of xml for travel site; close-to-real-time survey reporting across millions of records for education assessment tool; general contractor job bidding tool for local startup.
Swingpal & SwingFix March 2011 - May 2012
lead developer, ruby on rails
Work on Swingpal/SwingFix from early stage startup through multi-million dollar partnership signing with Golf Channel. Notable work includes: creating and implementing, from Photoshop to Ruby, an administrative system for the Golf Channel to receive, sort and broadcast user submitted videos; forking sass to support multiple compilers in Rails for ease of theming.
NIC October 2007 - March 2011
lead interface developer
Create user-friendly, accessible interfaces for Tennessee web services (paying various taxes online, state event registrations, state park reservations, etc.). Assist and educate other interface developers. Create and maintain html/css/JavaScript templates for other interface developers to use. Maintain the tn.gov web portal.
LifeView Resources & LifeView Outdoors August 2006 - October 2007
jack of all trades, master of none
Front-end web development. Flash. Video shooting and editing. Print and digital design. Photography. Photo retouching. DVD and CD-ROM authoring. Knot illustrations. And on slow days, packing and shipping orders.
Where I Studied 2002-2006
Bachelor of Arts in Digital Media
Concentration in Digital Cinema and Digital Imaging
John Brown University, Siloam Springs, ar
Who Likes Me
Mike Calhoun
CTO, LifeVest Health
Will Acuff
Operations Manager, CentreSource
