Let's talk about me
Where have I been, what have I been up to? I’ve been working as the Chief Techie for Venturian Media Ltd., who bought boxedup. I’ve been doing some Engine Yard cloud migrations and planning an interesting system that manages the affiliate system on the backend. This blog post is basically an answer to all the requests for a CV/resumé now that I’m available for work.
Key Skills
So now you know about me, here’s some key parts of the past 7 years that you might find useful when judging if I’m the man you need for a job.
- Since the beginning of 2005 I’ve been using Ruby and Rails on a daily basis
- Skilled in hosting and deployment
- Ruby on Rails Teacher for Skillsmatter both solo and alongside David Black
- Rails Contributor with documentation and patches
- Engine Yard App Support Manager, EU (Built up the EU team)
- CTO at Venturian Media, planned and re-wrote Boxedup using MongoDB
Hunt me down on the internet
- LinkedIn (Recommended by 22 people)
- Working with Rails (Recommended by 53 people)
- GitHub
- Rails Mentors
- Ruby Programming Challenge
Interviews
Conference Talks
External Articles
I get personal
I’m Jamie van Dyke. I was born in the North of England in a little town called Steeton. My Father was Dutch (he passed away) and my Mother is British. I’m in my early thirties and my hair is balding slightly at the back, which is a little depressing. I only have two children as far as I’m aware, they are Lex (my son, who is 4) and Liesel (my Daughter, who is 12). I’m engaged to Kelly Baker who is clearly a little dizzy because she wants to marry me!
And now for the Ugly Truth. I’m a grumpy man with a twist of humour, I’ll make you laugh but I’m one hell of a cynic! I strive for perfection in most of the things I do and I’m continuously disappointed with other’s attitude toward those around them. I don’t think I’m the best Father in the world, nor am I the best partner or worker, but I work as hard as I can to be them. What I would say though is that I’m a lot like Marmite, you either love me or hate me and there’s very rarely a middle ground. I’m extremely helpful, but suffer from an inability to say “no” to those that need my help, so sometimes I spread myself too thin with too many things to do. I apologise for that.
