About

This is the personal website of Tom de Bruijn. I am a Ruby on Rails web-developer. My projects usually involve building websites and web applications which are listed on this website under ‘Projects’. To learn more I also build applications in projects, ones worth mentioning are listed on this website.

My goal is to contribute more to open-source projects as I’m using them for my own work.

Currently I’m still in school, HBO (Bachelor Informatics/Computer Science), aiming to graduate January 2013, but ready to take on new challenges in the meantime.

In case you’re wondering, my Github account. Not a lot of good projects of mine are on my Github account at the moment so please do not take it as a representation of my abilities. I’ll try to add some in the future.

Technical experience

See a more detailed overview here.

• Programming languages
  • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Sinatra, nanoc, Middleman
    • rspec (testing framework)
  • JavaScript
    • jQuery (unobtrusive)
  • PHP, preferably with a framework
  • HTML (preference is HAML)
  • CSS (preference is SASS in combination with Compass)
  • Java (basics through school)
  • .NET C# (basics through school)
  • A brief intro to JRuby, Qt and Visual Basic .NET.
• Tools I use(d) in development and/or production:
  • nginx
  • Apache
  • Phusion Passenger
  • Git SCM
• Databases
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
• Operating Systems
  • Linux, I develop everything in a Virtual Machine Ubuntu. (Familiar with server configuration.)
  • Windows
  • Mac OSX
• Human languages
  • Dutch (native language)
  • English (second language; schools, English Language Minor and every day use)

I’m willing to learn new languages, tools, databases or other things since that can only help to improve my upcoming work. (And of course not everything I ever worked with is listed here.)