Company
Sasquatch Modern Software Applications, Inc. is the Ruby on Rails consultancy of Mike Mondragon. Mike has over ten years experience developing internet facing software applications and over three years experience developing Rails applications.
Specializing in ActiveRecord and database performance tuning, ActionController and ActionView performance and caching strategies, Ajax integration, search engine optimization, and application and deployment configurations. Mike has taken poorly performing Rails applications with complex and lengthy rendering problems to response times of less than 200ms using these techniques.
Sasquatch Modern Software Applications, Inc. is an Engine Yard Partner and a New Relic RPM Affiliate
Experience
Curriculum Vita & Bona Fides for Mike
- B.S. of C.S. Washington State University
- Technology blog
- Source code at Github
- Working With Rails profile
- LinkedIn profile
- Client references available upon request
Portfolio
- WhitePages, Ruby on Rails development
- FanChatter ChatterBox, Ruby on Rails development
- GrowShow, Ruby on Rails development
- CRiMSONJET / Appstatz , Ruby on Rails development
- LexBlog, Ruby on Rails development
- Destination360 Travel Guides , Ruby on Rails development
- Lugars , Ruby on Rails development
- Qvisory , Ruby on Rails development
- Slantwise Design , Ruby on Rails development
- PeepCode Screencasts , Ruby on Rails development
- CNet’s CHOW and UrbanBaby , Ruby on Rails development
- Blue Box Group LLC , Ruby development
- Eachday , Rails and Java development
- Snab , Rails and MMS technology
- Tyrnstone Systems, Inc. , Embedded Linux technology
Author
- MMS2R – Making email useful , a PeepCode PDF book
Open Source
- Author: MMS2R Gem, extract user media from cellular MMS
- Author: imPOSTor Gem, automate posting to forums.
- Author: Plasticx Blog – Capable of being shaped or formed, Ruby, Rails, Linux, Cellular focused blog
- Contributor: festivaltts4r Gem, text to speech in Rails
- Contributor: Blackbook Gem, scrape contacts from AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!
As a Professional
- Sandia National Laboratories , Member of the Technical Staff; Linux, Java; internet technologies
- Loudeye, Corp. , Software Engineer; Linux, SQL, Java, C/C++; media & advertising technologies
- downhill 365 LLC, business development an early stage startup
- MessageGate Inc. , Software Engineer; Linux, SQL, Java; email technologies
Contact
# +1.206.390.8743
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