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I'm not really good on the sales and marketing side, but a number of people have been bugging me to go public about my availability, so here it is. I'll be posting this in a more permanent location (linked on the sidebar) once I get it polished up and finalized:

I'm available for consulting on a part-time basis, 10-20 hours a week, at $100 per hour. I'm usually brought in for short-term gigs as a troubleshooter/problem-solver. Probably not worth mentioning, but this page should be proof that I'm better working on backend issues than UI. Email me at: ryand-ruby@zenspider.com.

What I do:

• Bootstrap new projects.
• Troubleshoot deep/confusing problems so the main developers can focus.
• Identify and fix problems to accelerate the development process.
• Design and implement solid, well-tested, efficient backend code at a rapid development pace.
• Retrofit or shore up tests.
• Refactor or reimplement brittle code.
• Profile and fix bottlenecks.
• Develop developer tools to improve the development process.
• Mentor.

What I Prefer to do it with:

• Ruby (yes, and rails)

What I also do:

• Java
• Python (but please no more twisted python!! blech!)

What I used to do and might be bribed into doing again:

• Smalltalk
• Perl
• C/C++/ObjC

Past Clients (ones I can mention):

• Limewire
• brightside broadcast
• Technology Group NW
• PNN

My Projects:

• BFTS
• metaruby
• ParseTree
• ruby2c
• RubyInline
• RubyTests
• Seattle.rb (png, hoe, ruby2ruby, heckle, image_science, box_layout)
• ZenHacks
• ZenTest
• ZenWeb
• zero2rails

I also Contribute to:

• ruby
• rubygems
• codeforpeople (rubyforge)