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I think that I would be a good fit for your Rails engineer position. I've been using Rails for 3 years, and have built or worked on 11 sites professionally. I've also contributed to a major Rails plugin (ultrasphinx) and released a Rails tool of my own (Palmist: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/projects). Beyond programming, I'm very passionate about usability and user experience. In fact, I've completed an online marketing certification course with marketingexperiments.com just for the heck of it, and I enjoy doing video usability reviews for people for fun. For the last year I have been the lead programmer with designerpages.com, a VC-funded, social network, Ruby on Rails startup. Most recently I was a senior developer with Zazengo on zazengo.com and a Facebook app. I've also been building http://www.releasepop.com in my spare time. Finally, I've included a recommendation from my current employer below. Thank you, and I hope to hear from you soon! Daniel Higginbotham ===================== Letter of Recommendation ===================== To whom it may concern, Due to funding issues and the current state of the VC market, I had to let one of my rails developers go. His name is Daniel Higginbotham and is located outside of Boston. He's been working for us at Zazengo for the past couple months and is really quite amazing. He has a great personality. He's very user-friendliness focussed and just finished adding tons of value to our planning retreat where we specced out a facebook application. On the rails side, he's definitely a senior-level programmer who's heavy into refactoring things, so they're done right. Supporting that is an almost obsession with TDD/BDD. I don't think I can remember a commit from him that wasn't accompanied with a test/spec. If you are looking for a rails developer to hire, I highly recommend him. We went through a national search to find him and had it not been for funding issues, we never would have let him go. He definitely has a slot on my ideal dev team. Thanks, Trey