Lewis Sparlin

@lsparlin
Developer running on coffee
Joplin, Missouri
he/him

Virtual Coffee

Software Developer

Rubyist

Open Source

Life Long Learner

Mentor

Snowboarder

Coffee Enthusiast

Web Developer

I’m a full stack developer. Coding makes me happy. I really enjoy building things and making enjoyable software. I use Ruby on Rails and JavaScript quite often, but have been know to work in other languages too.

I'm open to

open source contributions,

volunteering,

and mentoring.

Contact Me

Resume

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Jan 2022 - Present

Senior Software Consultant , Test Double

Feb 2022 - Nov 2022

Senior Mobile Developer (Consultant), Papa, Inc.

Apr 2020 - Dec 2021

Senior software developer, Known Decimal

Sep 2014 - Mar 2020

Senior software engineer , SparkPost

Links

lsparlin.dev

@lsparlin on ruby.social (Mastadon)

Portfolio

Completed Hacktoberfest 2021

Joined the newly created Known Decimal dev.to organization!

Thanks to my friend Ayu for the twitter shoutout

My 2021 Highlights

Twitter shoutout from the creator of the Practical DEV ❤️ https://twitter.com/bendhalpern/status/1456663716078960648

Joined Virtual coffee community https://virtualcoffee.io/

Writing

https://dev.to/lsparlin/hotwire-isnt-only-for-rails-5ekc

Wrote my first DEV blog post reflecting on my contribution to Hacktoberfest 2021

https://knowndecimal.com/blogs/points/a-newcomer-s-perspective-on-rails Shared my perspective on learning Rails - specifically as someone familiar with other languages or frameworks.

Open Source Contributions

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Resolved a small mention-related bug for Forem and added specs for a couple other cases that were in question https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/15342

Added more ViewComponents to railsdevio https://github.com/joemasilotti/railsdevs.io/pull/32

Added pre-commit ruby standardization to railsdevsio https://github.com/joemasilotti/railsdevs.io/pull/29

Added view components to pre-1.0 railsdevsio https://github.com/joemasilotti/railsdevs.io/pull/28