chip castle
chip@castle:~$ whoami
Crafting software since 1994.
Full-stack development in Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and Unix systems — for teams that need someone who's comfortable across the whole stack, from the server room to the browser.
$history
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2014–2024
UnixCasts.com
Built and ran a learning site teaching the Unix command line.
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2016
Impact Plastics
Delivered Bin Tracker, a hybrid asset-tracking app with barcode scanning, geolocation and map integration, and photo logging for repairs across a large fleet of waste containers. Shipped free to Impact Plastics customers on the App Store.
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2014
Pure Charity
Systems administration and DevOps across several Linux servers.
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2011–2014
Skyo
Worked a large Rails codebase over several years — refined the Git branching workflow around pull requests, cut code complexity, and migrated CI from a customized Jenkins setup to Semaphore.
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2003–2015
NYU School of Medicine
Built, customized, and hosted scheduling software for the Radiology Department, managing time slots across four MRI magnets and the billing tied to each research protocol.
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2001–2002
Coffee Cup Software
Wrote web applications for projects tied to Tucows and Blue Domino, for the makers of one of the longest-running HTML editors on the market.
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1996–2000
Bent Media
Early career at one of the leading web design agencies in the South, working on sites for Tabasco, Oreck vacuums, and The Neville Brothers.
$about
Since 1994, Chip Castle has been honing his craft of web and software development, working across a wide variety of systems and tools. These days that means mostly Unix and Ruby on Rails — but three decades in, the through-line has always been comfort with the whole stack, not just one layer of it.
- Focus
- Unix systems, Ruby on Rails
- Building since
- 1994
- Code
- github.com/chip