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hughg12311/README.md

Hi there πŸ‘‹ I'm Hugh!

I'm a Ruby on Rails Engineer based in Australia, passionate about building reliable software, improving developer experience, and delivering products that solve real business problems.

Currently I work across web applications, cloud infrastructure, product engineering, and platform architecture, with a strong focus on creating systems that are simple to maintain and enjoyable to work on.


πŸš€ What I'm Working On

  • πŸ„ Building large-scale livestock auction and marketplace software
  • 🌐 Developing modern Ruby on Rails applications
  • ☁️ Working with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes
  • πŸ“ˆ Improving SEO, analytics and website performance
  • πŸ€– Building AI-assisted engineering workflows
  • 🧩 Designing internal CMS and content management systems
  • πŸ“Š Creating better product and engineering processes

πŸ’» Tech Stack

Languages

Ruby JavaScript SQL HTML5 CSS3

Frameworks

Ruby on Rails Hotwire Turbo Stimulus

Cloud & Infrastructure

Google Cloud Kubernetes Docker NGINX

Databases & Background Jobs

PostgreSQL Redis GoodJob

Tools

GitHub GitHub Actions Jira Cloudflare Honeybadger


🎯 Areas of Interest

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Software Architecture
  • Platform Engineering
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Product Development
  • Technical SEO
  • AI for Software Engineering
  • Developer Experience
  • System Design

πŸ“š Currently Learning

  • Distributed Systems
  • Event Driven Architecture
  • Kubernetes Operations
  • Advanced PostgreSQL
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • AI Engineering Workflows
  • Large-scale Rails Architecture

πŸ”₯ Current Focus

class Developer
  def current_focus
    [
      "Building scalable Rails applications",
      "Improving cloud infrastructure",
      "Automating engineering workflows",
      "Designing better product architecture",
      "Using AI to improve software delivery"
    ]
  end
end

πŸ’‘ Philosophy

Build software that is easy to understand, easy to change, and difficult to break.


🀝 Let's Connect

I'm always interested in discussing:

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Software Architecture
  • Cloud Engineering
  • AI for Developers
  • Developer Tooling
  • Product Engineering

⭐️ Thanks for stopping by!

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