Senior Backend Engineer | Rails Performance & Cost Optimization
Grew up across 6 countries before high school (diplomatic family). Turns out being the perpetual new kid prepares you well for remote work. 4+ years remote across 5 continents, comfortable async.
9 years of Rails. I help SaaS companies stop burning money on infrastructure. At Hivebrite, I cut €160k/year in costs, reduced data exports from days to minutes, and halved build times while the team grew from 9 to 40 engineers.
Open to full-time or contract. seanfloyd.dev has the full story.
Rails Core Contribution - Found a production bottleneck, fixed it upstream. 20x-670x speedup in ActiveSupport.
Jazzify - Volunteer platform for Ottawa Jazz Festival. Built and ran it for 9 years. Production Rails, real users, real ops.
still_active - RubyGem to check if your dependencies are still maintained. Scratched my own itch.
claude-rss-news-digest - Daily news curation pipeline. RSS feeds, Claude for summarization, HTML email via Resend. Python, Docker, SQLite.
- Rails performance (database, Sidekiq, API optimization)
- Infrastructure cost reduction (CI/CD, autoscaling, resource tuning)
- API architecture (versioning, OAuth2, OpenAPI)
- Developer tooling