Portfolio

Wow, what a crowd! There is so much interest nowadays in the ways OpenTelemetry can reduce your tooling tax and consolidate your dependencies in your apps. Had so much fun presenting on OTel at WeA...

I had a lot of fun building a public GraphQL API workspace on Postman for New Relic. You can read all about how to use the workspace to supercharge your productivity on New Relic in this blog post....

How do you build effective open source communities? I'll be speaking at Open Source 101, a free online event, where I'll break down some concrete tips with examples on how to creative more resilien...

Launched over the holiday break a new reverse jobs board for second career developers. Second career devs can highlight their pivot skills, get noticed by hiring managers and recruiters, and get th...

After more than a year and a half of completely remote online experiences, it's hard to put into words the joy of bringing together people again! Last night I hosted Orbit's first get-together in T...

Hosting the first in-person Orbit get-together in Tel Aviv on Wednesday (30/6)! Come join other community builders, techies, and all-around cool humans for food and drinks at the Beer Garden in Sar...

What can open source software communities learn from one of the world's most humble animals? Quite a lot! In this blog post, I share some practical insights gleaned from the humble starfish. https:...

My talk from RailsConf is now publicly available. In it, I talk about parenting during the pandemic, and how some things I built with Rails made it a bit more manageable. https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Created an integration that connects LinkedIn data to Orbit workspaces https://github.com/orbit-love/community-ruby-linkedin-orbit

The first episode of Orbit Payload was added to YouTube. We work on building with the Notion API and connecting Notion docs to Orbit workspaces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WmvezLQhA&list=PLo...

Featured in Israel's largest free daily newspaper on my journey from a rabbi to software developer https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/689879

Was selected as one of the winners of the DEV Web Monetization API hackathon for my project creating Rack Middleware for the API https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-grant-for-the-web-x-dev-hackat...

After a year of weekly newsletters discussing the intersection of ethics and tech, my co-author and I published Torah && Tech, Volume I! https://torahandtech.dev/

I delivered a talk at RailsConf 2021 on how I built tools with Ruby on Rails that helped my family and me cope during the pandemic. https://dev.to/sylwiavargas/tech-talk-notes-self-care-on-rails-ra...

Built a new integration that connects Pipedrive CRM data to Orbit workspaces https://github.com/orbit-love/community-ruby-pipedrive-orbit

Contributed a docs update to Ruby on Rails https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/41142

Built a new developer platform tool to generate new developer portals. It is fully featured with support for OpenAPI specifications, markdown rendering, code snippets, internationalization, and mor...