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<div>Good morning LRUG,</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you're all well. We're a Ruby/Rails development consultancy and currently have availability for new development projects. Some things we've done for clients this year:</div><ul><li>Created a platform for searching and comparing financial instruments.</li><li>Refactored, documented, and added tests to a legacy codebase, including introducing newfangled technologies like <i>Bundler</i>.</li><li>Created and developed a backend API for a highly complex enterprise SPA.<br></li><li>Created a client-side itinerary price calculator for trips on the Japanese bullet-train.</li></ul><div>If you have a requirement for experienced developers that can do both back-end Ruby on Rails work and build complex client-side applications then please get in touch.</div><div><br></div><div>Other things while I'm here:</div><ul><li>I've started recording a <b>podcast</b> called <a href="https://thectoshow.simplecast.fm/">The CTO Show</a>, which seems to be getting some good reviews. I'd love any feedback, good or bad, especially since I'm not much of a podcast listener.</li><li>We've spun our <b>security offering</b> into it's own thing, which really means another <a href="https://gobearclaw.com/">website</a>, twitter account, etc. If you'd like us to a do a security-focus code audit, run our security workshop for your developers or just have me talk to your team about security for an hour at no charge then let me know.</li><li>I have an <b>open coffee/lunch invitation</b> for anyone on this list that wants to talk about hiring, being hired, security, food, programming computers, food, history, or whatever else. If that sounds interesting to you then let me know and we'll put something in the calendar.</li></ul><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div class="mixmax_signature"><div><font color="#666666" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Najaf Ali - Founder at <a href="https://www.happybearsoftware.com/">Happy Bear Software</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Phone: 07590 073 977</font></div><div><font color="#666666">Skype: alinajaf85</font></div><div><font color="#666666">Timezone: <a href="http://everytimezone.com/">London, UTC + 1</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/najafali">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/alinajaf">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://medium.com/@alinajaf">Medium</a> | <a href="https://github.com/Najaf">GitHub</a><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#666666">I run a technical consultancy specialising in Ruby on Rails. Have a look at <a href="http://happybearsoftware.com/download-info-sheet?source=ali-email-signature">this one-page info sheet</a> for a summary of the services we provide. We're always happy to meet people building software, so if you think of anyone appropriate for us we would appreciate being put in touch :-)</font></div></div><img align="left" width="0" height="0" style="border:0; width:0px; height:0px;" src="https://app.mixmax.com/api/track/v2/CYOSbsOXRahrqicrw/i02bj5SZyF2d0Z2bzJXYlJWewBXYoBUasFmI/icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI/gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI" alt="">
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