Michael de Silva

I've had the opportunity of working with small to mature startups, corporate organisations to large brands and agencies from different parts of the globe delivering eCommerce solutions to Autoglym, Whitespace, Civica, PoshPaws International, AndyThornton, Crestwood, Inkl and a lot more.

I work as a consultant to international clients, having founded Inertialbox in partnership with Grilled Pixels in the United Kingdom.

I am a seasoned software engineer with over 5-years experience working as Senior Rubyist/Rails Engineer, team lead, strategist, professional problem-solver, and consultant (via Inertialbox).

I have advised small to mature startups, worked for corporate organisations to delivering eCommerce solutions to global brands such as Autoglym UK.

With a passion for learning and teaching as well, I have mentored beginners and professionals alike on Ruby, TDD/BDD, and even introductory classes on how to use git effectively.

Although a Rubyist, I love working with well-crafted UIs that have been designed with User Experience in mind. HTML5/CSS3/Javascript is the ‘lingua franca’ of the modern web and I particularly love ES6/CoffeeScript and working with well tested client-side apps (Backbone, Ember, Jasmin/Konacha, SinonJS, Poltergeist etc.)

Further more, I have hacked on middleware, especially with Rails Engines and more recently started leveraging Golang powered web-services in Rails. The Ruby community at large make contributing to Open Source a particular pleasure and over the years I have contributed to Rails, RSpec, and even gems such as CanCan and Ftpd.

I am active on Twitter typically tweeting about Ruby and engaging with leaders in the community on various development topics.

DevOps is an area I take great interest in as well, since I have been hacking on Linux since 1992; I provision my own VPS’s in the cloud (AWS/DigitalOcean/Linode) and more recently been leveraging Chef/Ansible/Docker & AWS OpsWorks for an automated and maintainable means for provisioning servers effectively.

Specialties: Ruby on Rails, eCommerce & payment-gateway integration, Plugin (Gem) Development, Web App and Site Development for Desktop and Mobile

Further details available at http://desilva.io