A full-stack Ruby on Rails developer with experience in digital health, adtech, information systems architecture. Available for anything from small consulting to full-time, remotely from Berlin, Germany.
Location: Anywhere remotely
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (16+ years), JavaScript, Hotwire, CSS/SCSS, Postgres (too many to list each one)
Yes I would. I’m running my single product building agency https://cubitoo.com and it often blows my clients’ minds how easily we can incorporate advanced features with high level work Rails enables. I’m with Rails since v2 and never looked back.
Location: Germany / EU
Remote: Yes, not willing to commute
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Swift (iOS)
Email: pawel@cubitoo.com
Website: https://cubitoo.com
I am a Digital Product Builder, able to make a napkin idea into a production-ready product for my clients. Design, engineering, management.
To celebrate the release of 7 new journaling programs (reaching 18 in total) and the Christmas season, the app is free to try until the end of the year (down from the usual $4.99).
Give yourself some mental health support and enjoy clarity, mindfulness, and self-awareness this holiday season.
I feel like my app Howdy (https://howdy.cubitoo.com) has the most POSITIVE impact from all the things I have built lately — it's something that improves my life, my family's lives, and my friends'. I am not only using it myself but also super proud to do so and ABSOLUTELY LOVE working on it.
I found out that disconnecting from full time job and focusing on my own projects for a while (like a working sabbatical) does wonders to my enjoyment of work
If you are dealing with a lot of "empty databases" you can basically make something like a "core app" — attach cheapest paid redis and postgres to it, then copy the credentials between apps.
I have done this before — had one "X-core" app and "x-whitelabel-1", "x-whitelabel-2", and so on, connected to the same database while each app used different database name.
I have some experience with AWS ElasticBeanstalk that I used to migrate to my Heroku apps at some point.
With their Amazon Linux 2 they use the Procfile and it feels VERY close to Heroku with deployments (it has its own quirks though, like they have those managed upgrades that are sometimes breaking the app for some reason, etc.) but I am pretty happy with how easy it is compared to the previous AWS EB platform.
The problem is only the cost, i.e., when you have to pay for everything it is a bit more pricey (and settings are pain, those VPCs and security groups and whatnot, not fun)
I used to start my projects on Heroku because the first few iterations of the prototype can run on the free dynos, then hobby tier for the first production, better database when needed, and so on — slowly growing as it should be.
Now I will either replace it by some DigitalOcean droplet or Fly.io or Railway.app or whatnot. Whichever makes most sense for the growth of the project.
I am pretty sure some of my clients will stay on Heroku just because it's easier and they already pay for most services (so no free tier already) but it means NO NEW clients are coming to Heroku from me.
A full-stack Ruby on Rails developer with experience in digital health, adtech, information systems architecture. Available for anything from small consulting to full-time, remotely from Berlin, Germany.
Location: Anywhere remotely
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (16+ years), JavaScript, Hotwire, CSS/SCSS, Postgres (too many to list each one)
Website: https://cubitoo.com
Email: pawel@cubitoo.com