Toby Marsden

Freelance Rails Developer

I'm an experienced Ruby on Rails developer, founder & CEO of Databasify and leader of the Web Collective.

Hire me  to build your next project.

Skills

Ruby, Rails
I started with Rails 1.0, and I'm now on 4.0.

Payments
PCI compliance, API integration with Stripe, Authorize.net, Paymill, PayPal, PayPoint.net, Direct Debits...

Design
Front-end design, UX and full-stack development. I also work with a ridiculously talented pool of freelancers through my Web Collective.

Scaling
Experience developing and running sites with hundreds of thousands of uniques a month, spiking to 1m+ per day.

Javascript
Ember.js, Angular.js

Strategy
Marketing and user acquisition. I helped my previous employer increase their email list from 10k to 250k subscribers.

Security
Experience hardening a regularly-attacked site, including full database encryption, code reviews, DDoS prevention and regular penetration testing.

Integrations
I've completed complex integrations with APIs from Salesforce.com, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Vimeo, AWS and others.