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Yitz Schaffer

Yitz Schaffer

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ABOUT ME
PHP and Ruby agile development
PHP and Ruby agile development

I've been building web applications in PHP and Ruby for 8 years. My specialties include backend development, test setup with legacy code, and XP engineering practices generally, like TDD, refactoring, and incremental design. I'd love to help you sort out your codebase, or build your skills!

English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined June 2015
EXPERTISE
OOP
5 years experience
RubyPHP
RubyPHP
PHP
8 years experience
Symfony 2Software architectsComposer
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Symfony 2Software architectsComposerCodeIgniterSymfony 1PhpunitSilexBehat
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Ruby
2 years experience
Software architectsRuby on RailsRSpec
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Software architectsRuby on RailsRSpecSinatraRubocop
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JavaScript
5 years experience
JasmineMochaGoogle maps javascript api
JasmineMochaGoogle maps javascript api

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

4.7
(3 reviews)
drew
drew
July 2015
Yitz was able to dive right in and had some great suggestions about things I could work on beyond our code session.
Tiff
Tiff
June 2015
Friendly and knowledgeable guy!
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