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Ellen Dash

I’m a software developer who has over a decade of experience with C (largely in the realm of operating system development), Ruby, and web development.

Email: the@smallest.dog

Current Work

• Software Developer — Ruby Together (January 2016—Present)

  I help maintain RubyGems, as well as develop how_is, a tool for assessing the status of a GitHub repository.

Previous Work

• Delivery Consultant — Zinc Technology, Inc. (Feb 2015—Jul 2015)
• Associate Software Developer — UPMC Technology Development Center (May 2013—Jan 2014)

  Worked on MyUPMC (Rails, AngularJS, SASS)

Projects and Contributions

• Tuna — A custom computer architecture I am designing.
• heresy — An alternative to (some of) the Ruby standard library.
• ruby-tce — An implementation of Tail Call Elimination for Ruby 1.9+.
• Browsebug — Browser glitch engine.
• Sicuro — Sandbox for the Ruby programming language.
• Meep — A file that does the same thing when ran as Ruby, C, PHP, and JavaScript.
• loled — An ed clone in Ruby.

You can view more of my open source work on GitHub and GitLab.

Technical Proficiencies

• Networking Infrastructure
  • IRC
  • HTTP
  • SMTP
  • SSH
  • DNS
  • and others
• Programming Languages
  • Ruby
  • C
  • Javascript
  • x86 Assembly
  • Bash
• Markup
  • HTML
  • Markdown
  • HAML
  • ERB
  • Jade
• Frameworks and Libraries
  • Sinatra
  • Rack
  • Rails
  • jQuery
  • Sass
• Test Frameworks
  • RSpec
  • Minitest
• Version Control
  • Git