Lance Carlson
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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RockstarLance Carlson is a seasoned software engineer in Ann Arbor, Michigan with 17 years of experience focused on AI, Ruby/Rails, and systems languages like Rust. He founded Ruby Skills to mobilize top Ruby talent for projects of all sizes and has hands-on experience deploying and supporting Rails applications from early roles at Engine Yard and product launches. An active open-source contributor, he significantly enhanced the popular Sequel ORM by implementing and refining relationship and join-table functionality, improving query generation and test coverage. His technical breadth spans Ruby, Rust, JavaScript/Node, C#, React and search engine work, enabling him to deliver end-to-end solutions from database design to front-end UX. Combining entrepreneurial grit with low-level craftsmanship, he tends to tackle problems that bridge developer ergonomics and production performance.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
object-mapping10
orm10
sql10
ruby10
database-design9
rspec9
passenger6
capistrano6
activerecord6
nginx6
has-many6
postgresql6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jeremyevans/sequel
Jan 2008 - Feb 2008
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:Lance primarily contributed to the `sequel` project by implementing and refining the relationships feature of the Sequel ORM. This included adding and improving join table functionalities, defining methods for has-one, has-many and belongs-to relationships, and creating database queries. They also fixed bugs and enhanced existing code, while also adding specs and improving codebase coverage.
sequelmysqlsqlrubytoolkit
lancecarlson/anvil
Mar 2008 - Aug 2008
Contributions:24 commits in 5 months
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