Joe Burke

A Full-Stack Rails Developer

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My name is Joe, I'm a Rails Dev from the UK with 2 years of experience looking for a new role based in Berlin.

Who I am

As a person, I am kind, sensitive and value-driven and I am happiest in a work environment that is likewise conscientious about its role in the world. I'm an honest and articulate communicator and I care deeply about justice and ethics, both inside and outside of my workplace — a standard I keep for myself, first of all.

As a programmer, I take enormous satisfaction from writing good code that is future-proof, human-readable, reusable and logical. These are the criteria I have in mind every time I sit down to work. I believe the role of the developer is as much about documenting the codebase, designing its structure and communicating clearly and productively with all those involved.

Aside from my career, I'm also an amateur creator of music, film and literature. I love language-learning, and speak French, Spanish and German to an intermediate level. I read incessantly, on a million different topics, I like travelling and hiking for getting some headspace, and since 2021 I have been living in Leipzig, Germany.

Experience

My main body of experience as a developer is the two years I spent as a Full Stack Developer in the Digital Transformation team at @unepwcmc. I came into that job as a well-trained, unseasoned programmer who knew the basics of the web. By the time I left the organisation, I had first-hand experience of massive web applications used by environmental scientists across the world.

I'm really proud of the growth I underwent in this period. I led the development of brand new projects, successfully realising our team's designs on time. I devised solutions to meet specific requirements for our projects, leading the development of features like multisite Single-Sign-On and Sharepoint integration. I worked to foster best practices among the dev team to ensure our work was cohesive and efficient, making significant contributions to our in-house gems. The value I provided to the team is

Previous to this, I also spent a year studying Web Development with @microverse. There I did the essential learning of a Full Stack Developer, building personal projects to demonstrate competency in Rails, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML & CSS and React, as well as cultivating my soft skills and professionalism.

Technical skills

Ruby on Rails (2 years commercial experience, 1 year educational)
Sass (2 years commercial experience, 1 year educational)
Vue (2 years commercial experience)
React (1 year educational experience)
PostgreSQL (2 years commercial experience)

Joe Burke's Projects

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