Jamis Buck Email & Phone Number

I make things. Lots of things, in lots of ways. Some in software, some not. It's what I love to do.I helped make Ruby on Rails. I was a member of the core team from 2005–2007.I helped make Basecamp. I was at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), from 2005 to 2014, and returned again in 2020, working with and learning from some of the world's best and brightest.I am the original author of Capistrano, Net::SSH for Ruby, and the SQLite3-Ruby bindings.I've written and shipped apps for iOS, as well as (once upon a time) PalmOS and Pocket PC.Over the last 25 years, I've written web, desktop, terminal, and client/server apps, in C/C++, Java, Objective-C, and Ruby. (And quite a few others.)Aside from those, I've spent thousands more hours tinkering on side projects ranging fromuniform tilings, random mazes, and celtic knots, to personal finance, genealogy, and logic engines.I've experimented with grammars, parsers, interpreters, and compilers. I've written and played with ray-tracers and random generators. Syntax highlighters, document readers, logic puzzles, databases, web servers, layout engines—I've been up to my elbows in all of them.Every side project I've done was because I was curious about how something worked.I wanted to explore it. I wanted to understand it.So, I learn things.Lots of things. Eclectic things. Quickly, and well.I'm good at it. Set me a task, point me at a challenge, and I'll get to the bottom of it.Out of sheer curiosity and a desire to explore, I've taught myself wood-carving, string figures,how to juggle, bind books, draw, and bake bread, how to make bow ties, chain mail juggling balls,kimchi and homemade marshmallows.I've read calculus texts because I wanted to, and books about Middle English because they sounded interesting.Oh, and I wrote a book about maze algorithms.I love to learn.

Listed skills include Ruby, Ruby On Rails, C, Sql, and 27 others.

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  Brigham Young University

  Computer Science