ritu kamthan

I am

Lead Ruby on Rails Developer at Norbauer Inc

Norbauer Inc is an international Ruby on Rails consultancy with fourteen experienced Ruby developers who passionately believe in beautiful code and simple solutions to technical problems.

I know

Web development (3 years experience)

Ruby on Rails is my framework of choice, and I've been working with it almost since its inception. I have created and managed the development of open-source plugins and projects.

I have worked with many web technologies, including specialty in:

  • Payment gateways and e-commerce: Paypal, Authorize.net, LinkPoint, eBay, etc.
  • XML and SOAP
  • Javascript and AJAX (in particular the Prototype, and Scriptaculous libraries)
  • Servlets and JSP
  • Familiarity with other programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, and JAVA
  • SQL Server 7.0, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Flash MX and Photoshop

Test and behavior driven development

I and my team are experienced with TDD with Test::Unit and BDD with RSpec, Rcov, and Watir.

I have worked on

Lovetastic.com

We implemented a refit of this social networking site to make thorough use of Amazon Web Services, including using Mechanical Turk for photograph approval and S3 for remote storage and back-up. We implemented a spam-control system, new Javascript components, and a number of tasks to automate and ease the daily administration of the site, to cite a few examples.

Nosuni.com

We manage the development and hosting of this Spanish-language social network for students.

Westack.com

I have consulted for this social bookmarking site

Hirefly

I am developing for this forthcoming app, currently running at OrganicMaps.com.

Powermyloan.com

We manage development and deployment for this online loan finder tool.

a wide variety of other projects

including project management and development of an online project management tool that integrated with Basecamp, development of an "electronic wallet" and extensive eCommerce system for a Japanese company, a data capturing and analysis tool for SecondLife, and much more.