I'm Jimmy Cuadra.

I write about programming and free software.

Jimmy Cuadra's Résumé

Jimmy Cuadra giving a presentation on his Ruby gem, to_lang, at a San Diego Ruby meeting

Overview

I'm a computer programmer living in San Francisco, California. I've worked in both application development, quality assurance, and infrastructure operations roles. My two principal career interests are working with the Rust programming language and working on cloud infrastructure and automation using Kubernetes. I'm currently available for remote positions only.

Skills

  • Programming in several languages:
    • Rust
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • CoffeeScript
    • Elm
    • Shell
    • Perl
  • Virtual machines with Vagrant, VirtualBox, VMware Fusion
  • Linux container orchestration with Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, etcd, and more
  • Cloud infrastructure with Heroku, Amazon Web Services, and DigitalOcean
  • Configuration management with Chef, Puppet, and Ansible
  • Command line proficiency in macOS and Linux
  • Experience with popular web frameworks and libraries:
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Sinatra
    • Haml
    • Sass
    • Flask
    • jQuery
    • Backbone
    • Underscore
  • Experience with HTML and CSS
  • Version control with Git and Subversion
  • Test-driven development, test automation, test doubles, and continuous integration

Personal Qualities

  • Excellent writing skills
  • Highly motivated
  • Focused on quality
  • Self-directed and self-managing
  • Interested in learning new technologies
  • Active in the open source software community

Work History

  • Stripe (2019 — present): Software Engineer
  • PagerDuty (2018): Senior Site Reliability Engineer
  • InQuicker (2014 — 2017): Senior Developer
  • Uber (2013 — 2014): Software Engineer
  • Change.org (2012 — 2013): Software Engineer
  • Eventful (2009 — 2012): Senior Front End Engineer
  • Einstein Industries (2009): Production Engineer
  • Miva Merchant (2009): Web Developer
  • Rady School of Management (2007-2008): Web Developer

Detailed descriptions of my work at each job are available upon request.

Education

Bachelor's degree, University of California, San Diego

References

Available upon request.

Contact

See the contact page for details on encryption keys if you'd like to contact me privately.