Jordi Bunster

• To work with the very best in the industry
• To always use the best methods and tools
• To create software that users love to use

• Introduced support for interleaved migrations to the upcoming 2.1 release of Ruby on Rails.
• Added String#squish (a very simple and handy string filter) to ActiveSupport.

July 2008 ~ present

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

CardioMEMS Inc. - Atlanta, GA

Recently joined the local Rails development team.

April 2007 ~ July 2008

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Emcien, Inc. - Atlanta, GA

Helped create the company's first Software as a Service offering, using Ruby on Rails, Amazon's EC2 and S3, MySQL, and custom Ruby code on the backend.

• Actively influenced the design of the user interface for the product by introducing some of the core UI concepts.
• Devised and implemented a system to aggressively maximize cache hits across the application, even between different user's authenticated pageviews, by reducing different (yet equivalent) search queries to their optimal common form.
• Created an extensible data import tool in Ruby that validates and imports different versions of an input file, using C extensions and MySQL's bulk import facilities for added speed.
• Participated in the design of a data model to allow for fast, live, arbitrary aggregate metrics of very large data sets.

Aug. 2005 ~ April 2007

IT Partner

PayPartners - Atlanta, GA

• Was fundamental in development (and continuous enhancement) of the company’s internal software portal, used for all daily operations and customer service.
• Co-designed a workflow for secure, efficient and fully accountable debit-card fulfillment operations in large scales.

May 2003 ~ Jan. 2005

UNIX Admin / Developer

Convergent Media Systems - Alpharetta, GA

• Lead in a team-wide migration to Subversion, taking responsibility for successful installation, maintenance, training and initial user support.
• Conducted research in the area of digital signage, including topics such as realtime video codecs and satellite networks.
• Created XML vocabularies for eLearning courses, and designed workflow for exporting said XML into multiple formats.
• Managed production UNIX servers.

July 2000 ~ March 2002

Head UNIX Admin

Nautilus Informática - Belém do Pará, Brazil

• Joined as an intern and was quickly promoted to head of the systems administration team, but not before going through telephone support, and system administrator assistant.

Frontend Developer

Interra Networks - Atlanta, GA

• Provided the company with know-how in the areas of user interfaces and systems administration.
• Modeled the database for a VoIP calling card product.
• Developed the front-end for the product.

UNIX Systems Administrator

Pará State Official Press - Belém do Pará, Brazil

• Managed a company-wide migration from Microsoft products to modern UNIX-like systems.
• Authored the server maintenance policy draft.

UNIX Systems Administrator

Expert Informática - Belém do Pará, Brazil

• Migrated unmaintained and undocumented FreeBSD systems to Debian GNU/Linux.
• Administered the new servers while documenting things before handing it over to the next systems administration team.

• Kennesaw State University - Introductory Java courses.
• Universidade da Amazônia - Courses in analytic geometry, linear algebra and vectors, discrete mathematics, database design, and introductory C programming.

• Presenting Data and Information - A course by Dr. Edward Tufte, including topics such as:
  • complexity and clarity
  • fundamental strategies of information design
  • design of computer interfaces and manuals
  • statistical data: tables, graphics, and semi-graphics
  • design of information displays in public spaces

• Ruby on Rails, ANSI C, C99, PHP5
• HTML4, XML, XHTML, CSS, LaTeX
• AJAX, Javascript, jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous
• Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Mac OS X
• Amazon EC2 and S3
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3
• Git, Mercurial, Subversion, CVS