Do you know your way around the Rails? Are you looking for work working with Rails? This is your page. Rails has a commercial ecosystem growing at steam speed and the opportunities to land contract or full-time employment have never been better.

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Developers for hire

• Mohan Kumar Having 4 years exp in Web Development .I am interested to take up freelancing ROR Projects.I am have team of 3 people experience in developing ROR projects in Agile(Scrum) and TDD.Our team expertise in Web 2.0, Rails, REST, TDD, Rspec, subversion and others that help speed development.Interested? contact me rmohankumar at gmail dot com

• Victor Olteanu – I am an expert consultant and development manager based in New York City (NYC). I am able to build and manage teams of developers and testers, and to work out business requirements and sales strategy. I am experienced in Agile & Scrum methodologies, and have worked with some of the top companies in NYC. Contact me at infomail.v at gmail dot com and we can meet and talk about your projects.

• Arunkumar has 2.5 years of experience in Ruby on Rails Framework. We have worked in complex and challenging web2.0 Rails projects. we like to do more :) . Those who like to release the application of tomorrow web, please contact us at thinkingrails@gmail.com. we are open to business…

• Sagebit, LLC provides development, business consulting and project management for leading companies online. We build web apps in Ruby on Rails and work with companies seeking anything from a little help to the whole enchilada. Our goal is to make things better, faster and as complete as they need to be. We are swift, agile and curious. We like to solve business problems as much as we like to solve technical problems. Visit us at http://www.sagebit.com/

• Dave Angulo has over 30 years experience in software development and 13 years experience in web programming. We also have a large professional team that can produce a quality site for any sized client. Our work is always of the highest quality because we utilize Agile development methodology in all our work. We develop for all target platforms. Angulo Consulting (http://AnguloConsulting.com/RubyOnRails.php)

• Trevor Attema has over 18 years professional IT development and business experience. He enjoys helping people and companies get started with Ruby on Rails and would like to help you. Do you need assistance with your project? Just ask Trev! [trevor]@[attema].[name]

• Justin Bradford has consulted for a few major Ruby/Rails start-ups, as well as contributing code to Rubinius, Apache, and Mozilla. He is available for short-term consulting work.

• Steve Butterworth is a UK based web developer with over 8 years professional experience, 2 in Rails. His Rails portfolio includes the popular sizeasy and lowcarbon.com. Steve is available for web design and development specializing in Rails, AJAX, CSS, XHTML and designing for useability. More details at humbletechnologies

• David Demaree (david@practicalmadness.net) is owner and web chef for Chicago’s Practical Creative & Code, specializing in building awesome, standards-based web sites and applications using Ruby on Rails, Prototype and Script.aculo.us. You may remember him from such apps as the new T-26. David presented a talk on web 2.0 interface design at RailsConf in 2006. He often expounds about Rails, the web industry and novelty beverages at his blog, Practicalmadness

• Timothy Jones is a San Francisco-based computer science Ph.D. with nearly 20 years experience as a developer, architect, and manager in a broad range of technologies and industries. Available for consulting and contract development projects.

• Chooi-Guan Lim is an experienced developer and the founder of Skyjuice Software. Creator of Quick File Rename and Ezy Grant Writer, he has experience with developing web applications using Ruby on Rails, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion and other web technologies. He is friendly and approachable. Contact details and portfolio are available in his resume

• Robby Russell: (RobbyOnRails , robby@planetargon.com) is the Founder and Executive Director of PLANET ARGON, the premiere Ruby on Rails development , consulting , and hosting firm based in Portland, Oregon. Robby is currently writing the book, Programming Rails for O’Reilly, speaking at Canada on Rails , and is available for on-site training and consulting. Robby is known in the Rails community as Robby on Rails

• Timothy Fisher is a professional developer in Southeastern Michigan. Tim is also the founder and president of the Southeastern Michigan Ruby Users Group .

• ScottRaymond is a Rails contributor and has been developing professional web applications for nine years, with clients ranging from small nonprofits to Fortune 100 multinationals—most recently, the widely acclaimed Blinksale. He is conversant with a wide swath of technologies, but for new development prefers Rails. More details can be had from his resume or from sco@scottraymond.net.

• Scott Barron has been building web applications with Rails since its initial public release. He is a regular contributor to the Rails core and has written over a dozen Rails applications of varying sizes. Contact via email at scott@elitists.net.

• MattMcCray has been building web applications for ten years and is a contributor to Rails (most recently worked on the updated AJAX support in 0.11.1). Creator of taskTHIS! , Matt is interested in pursuing Rails specific work, he’s located in Dallas, TX.

• Johan Sorensen lives for creating better experiences for everyone. I’m a free-range code muncher and graphic utilizer located in Sweden and is looking for interesting projects. I’ve been rolling on the Rails since September 2004.

• Sur . I am working on RubyonRails since around two years on various clients’ projects. Apart from that i have released rails plugins Simple Captcha and Validate Attributes. I love to work in agile, test driven and collaborated environ. Extreme leadership abilities…
  contact: sur (DOT) max (AT) gmail.com

• Justin French has expertise in custom built Content Management Systems for web based publications built on the Rails platform, living in Melbourne, Australia. Currently working for RedBubble full-time, with some limited time available after hours. Also plenty of experience building and re-building agile development teams to on how to best work with Rails in start-ups and high-pressure businesses.

• David Morton is a ruby/php/perl programmer in Emporia, KS with web application experience in each. Currently involved in ajax rails development and Maia Mailguard (unfortunately, still in php, but I’m looking to change that!)

• JoeHosteny is a Ruby/Python/C++ programmer in Pittsburgh, PA, who contributed an extended login generator (Salted Hash Login Generator) based on Tobias Luetke’s login generator. Currently developing a Rails based aviation logbook.

• Jacob Stetser programmed in PHP, Python and Java before finding this jewel in the rough. He’s currently working on a “supr-sekret” Rails project of his own (codename: Pony) and investigating a few improvement ideas for the Rails Ajax support. He currently lives on Maui.

• Toby Sterrett is a full-time web developer in southern CA who has been designing and building dynamic sites for the past 8 years. Recently completed his first big rails-based client site and is looking to work exclusively in rails from here on out.

• McClain Looney Free-Range Rails & Java developer.

• Jonathan Ng is a Seattle based Rails developer employed by Add Three

• Anatol Pomozov is a Russia based web developer and has more than 5 years experience in developing enterprise apps with Java. He is active developer of 2 opensource projects: mvnFoum and XDoclet2 . Recently he started using Ruby and RubyOnRails as primary development stack. I am available for hire right now. anatol dot pomozov at gmail dot com

• Philip Gatt is a California based developer with over 10 years of professional web development experience. He has extensive experience developing large scale applications, handling over a million users daily. After years of J2EE development, he has fallen in love with Rails.

• Peter Marreck is a Boston-area information architect with 5 years of web/database development experience (mainly ASP/SQL Server/PHP) and has just completed his first production Rails app, having fallen for Ruby and the framework. He is available for hire at peter@marreck.com.

• Ralf Wirdemann is a software developer from Hamburg/Germany. He has extensive Rails and J2EE development experience, got one commercial Rails-App online and is the

• Tim Peat web developer designer web application developer and designer based in both the UK and Athens, Greece. Specialising in creating accessible, SEO optimised, standards compliant applications using Rails, AJAX, Perl, JavaScript, CSS and XHTML. Experience in multi-language, localized applications. Excellent project management skills.

• John Griffiths web developer and designer with seven years industry experience, specializing in Rails, .NET, AJAX and PHP development. Award-winning time management skills and all around nice guy; but terrible guitarist. Enjoy!

• Brandon Anderson Chicago based. 10 years of experience in web technologies. Recently formed Pixel Media. I’ve worked on projects for Maxell, Qwest, and Virgin. Focus on Rails, PHP, Flash and various DB schema. AJAX, “Web 2.0,” CSS, XHTML, the list goes on…

• Justin Turner San Antonio Website Developer based in Texas. Many years of experience in php, and growing portfolio of ruby on rails sites. I specialize in advance website developing, and use very clean code to get high in the search engines, and to maintain and scale websites.

• Michael Daines makes websites and designs for the web. Working with Ruby on Rails, experienced with interaction in the browser (JavaScript, etc.) as well. Based in Davis, CA, can travel to the Bay area.

• Joerg Diekmann is a web application developer with eleven years of experience – working in Johannesburg, London, Beijing, and now Cape Town, South Africa. He has been working professionally with Rails for more than 2.5 years, and currently runs an online invoicing system called Fluttervoice. Take a look at his portfolio at brea.kfa.st.

• Jirka Schaefer is a professional project manager, got 5 years experience with rapid development frameworks (RoR, Django, Symfony) and specializes in psychological/self awareness capabilities of developers. He runs its own development company in Dresden, Germany.

• Mike Bennett – a London based Developer currently using RoR for RAD. Also AJAX with Prototype and Scriptaculous. Recently produced Appointments Software which uses Drag and Drop with rather less code complexity than Google calendar – OK and not quite so many features. Have worked a lot in the UK NHS on the design of clinical systems – plus lots of systems analysis for Small and Medium companies. Also led a start-up company to over 30 employees and a very large NHS contract tender where we umm.. came second! Interested to work with innovative start-ups and small companies to produce world-beating software fast.

• Chris Anderton and Rob Anderton are the Rails busting brotherly duo behind TheWebFellas. Both have been building web applications since the beginning of (internet) time and now lead a UK based Ruby on Rails development firm. Check us out on our website (new version with re-peppered blog coming soon) – available for hire or just for a friendly Rails based chat!

• Todd Resudek A NYC based developer offering front-end coding as well as ROR development. Recently launched Prodigious .

• Rajesh Duggal Toronto based contractor. Was a perl web dev pro and unix admin back in mid 90s. More recently working on Java. And now in love with Ruby.

• Steve Madsen is the owner and principal engineer at Light Year Software, LLC. Based in Columbus, OH, Steve now consults on Rails and other software projects after spending over nine years working at a variety of start-ups in the Silicon Valley.

• Robert Dempsey, the Project Director of Atlantic Dominion Solutions and the Founder of Rails For All has more than 8 years of software development and project management experience. He has multiple articles published on the AWS Developer Connection site and is the Program Chair for acts_as_conference.

• Pavan Kumar Mangalampalli is the Founder and CEO of Nyros Technologies . He has a 30 member dedicated development team in India. Their latest development in RoR : Free HTML CSS Joomla Wordpress Themes and Templates for Download

• Scott Patten is a Ruby on Rails developer and trainer based in Vancouver. Scott fell in love with Rails while developing Plot-O-Matic, a scientific graphing web application.

• Rahoul Baruah is a Ruby on Rails developer based in Leeds, England. Building commercial projects in Rails since 2005 (including for UK local authorities using Rails on IIS ) and a track record of reliability, beautiful code, easy to use interfaces and simple communications.

• Delon Newman has over 8 years of experience as a Programmer, Web Developer and Graphic Designer, he started developing Ruby on Rails applications in 2005.

• Matt Brown is a freelance web developer with over 3 years of professional experience both locally, in South Africa, as well as with international companies. Matt is available for Rails, CSS/xHTML and design work. [mattstylus]@[gmail].[com]

• Roshan Shah is President of BPO Canada Global Services Corporation and the Founder of Rails House and Rails India. He has more than 12 years of strong Software/Web Development experience with Fortune 500 clients. BPO Canada Global Services Corporation specializes in Drupal? and Ruby on Rails? development with a team of 50 people between Canada and India. Roshan can be reached at [bpocanada]@[hotmail].[com] or 604-630-4292

• David North is a freelance web developer based in Dorset UK with 8 years commercial experience specialising in Ruby on Rails, XHTML/CSS and Adobe Flex/Actionscript.

• Andrew Kaspick is co-owner of Redline Software Inc., a software company based in Winnipeg, Canada that specializes in Ruby on Rails development. Andrew has over 15 years of software development experience and is an early adopter of Ruby on Rails where he has been developing applications with the framework since early 2005. Andrew is a core contributer and the author of various Rails plugins. Andrew can be contacted at andrew@redlinesoftware.com

• Channing Walton is a director of Casual Miracles, a London based consultancy specialising in in Ruby on Rails, Eclipse RCP and software process improvement. Channing has over 20 years of software development experience in a broad range of industries, as have most of the other consultants at Casual Miracles. Channing can be contacted at channing.walton@casualmiracles.com

• Diego Viola (diego(dot)viola(at)richapplicationsconsulting(dot)com) is a passionate Linux/UNIX system administrator with 8 years of Linux experience and a Ruby on Rails programmer with 1 year of experience in Rails development.

• Bala Paranj (bparanj(at)gmail(dot)com) is Ruby on Rails developer for the past 2 years with 11 years experience in the software industry.

• Michele Finotto has worked with Ruby on Rails since mid-2005. He co-founded Wonsys S.r.l. in 2006. In 2007, he was nominated by BusinessWeek as one of the best european young entrepreneurs

• Ryan Kopf (kopf1988(at)gmail(dot)com) has used Ruby on Rails since December of 2007, but has used Ruby for a years after evolving from Perl.

• Sergio Ontiveros, Founder and Principal Consultant at
  Solutionwise Consulting -
  Solution provider for Agile Ruby Projects. Solid experience and a broad knowledge in Software Development Projects, specialized in Ruby-related projects.
  Ample experience in Java platform to complement the services we provide for Ruby Projects.
  Contact us at sergio at solutionwise dot ca

• Hubert Łępicki is a ruby and Rails programmer. He has got experience in building multi-user RoR applications, working with public, goverment and media organizations.

• Desperate RoR developer as freelancer

• Joakim Kolsjö Swedish student with 4-5 months of full time web development experience and 2-3 months of rails (and of course years of hacking in general :). Available for hire (full time). I have taught two short courses in Ruby and Rails. Updated: 18/5 – 2008.

• Aditya Raj from India holds more than four years of experience in web development and in technologies like Ruby on Rails, PERL, PHP and JavaScript. Currently he is exploring new options as a freelancer / consultant and is interested in developing long term relations with like minded people and organizations. Download Resume Email: aditya.internet@gmail.com

• Kevin Yang Kevin is the founder of NibiruTech LTD. NibiruTech is the leading Ruby on Rails development service provider in China. We help small & medium companies to leverage the power of ruby on rails and have access to the incredibly large talent pool in China.

• Evandro Miquelito is a software developer with over 7 years of professional experience. Evandro is available for development work in Rails, Django, CSS, XHTML, PyGTK and PBX systems based on Asterisk. [emiquelito]@[gmail].[com]

• Eddie Moses is a professional developer from romania. He developed many American websites like USA yellow pages, Canadian Yellow pages, UK Online Yellow pages, funeral flowers, Plumbers directory and many more. He knows Ruby on rails, cake php and java expert. Email me at eddiemoses81 AT Yahoo Dot Com.

• Elmer Alinsog is the founder and managing partner of Travel 2.0 | Strategy + Business, acting as business and technology architect, and as project manager on client’s development – specializes in the development of advance travel portal, automation engines to aggregate and distribute wholesale travel products through web services and cool mashups using RoR framework – based in Manila, Philippines. [elmer] @ [travelstrategybusiness.com]

• Silicon Valley based Rails developer and trainer Gilbert Flamino has extensive video Content Management and Operational Support Systems project experience. Projects include Adobe Flex 3 integration with RoR implementations. Often on the East Coast too! Contact Gilbert at RoR{@}newnetwork{dot}com.

• E. James O’Kelly is a Ruby on Rails Consultant with over 11 years in software development, 6 years in web design, and 2 years with Ruby and Rails. He is the creator of several Rails plugins like acts_as_subscribeable and is currently a Rails core and Mephisto contributor. Contact him at his blog or his email: james{@}railsjitsu{dot}com

• Jim Neath (Manchester based Ruby on Rails Developer) is a Ruby / Rails developer based in Manchester, UK. He has over 8 years experience in building, designing and monitoring web sites.

• Matt Moore created ThriveSmart, LLC, and also works on a contract basis, from time to time. Take a look at the site, Ruby on Rails Contractors

• Reuven M. Lerner has been developing Web applications since 1993. He has used Rails professionally since summer 2006. Reuven’s monthly Web developer column in Linux Journal (“At the Forge”) has appeared since 1996. He is based in Modi’in, Israel, but has worked with numerous clients in North America, Europe, and East Asia. He is available for development, consultation, speaking, and training. Contact him at reuven@lerner.co.il or as “reuvenlerner” on Skype.

• Roland Moriz is a Ruby on Rails Consultant with a strong web application development background based in München (Munich/Germany). He worked in large projects for customers like Amazon, Tiscali, Yahoo! and Allianz. Besides Ruby and Ruby on Rails he knows Perl, PHP and Java.