Position: Full Stack Web Developer, Team Lead, CTO
Category: Ruby
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

Selecting people on merit and potential.

Selecting tools on demonstrated empowerment. That is why I still stick with Rails.

Not reinventing the wheel for no reason.

Measurement >> opinion. Performance monitoring empowers.

Practicing periodic dependency updates, technical debt evaluation.
In 15 years of web development, I've done

PHP to Ruby rewrite of Top-1000 Web sites of that time

Was 1st developer in startup invested by Mark Cuban

For 5 years was a technical lead in business-process automation
software with more than 20 man-years of effort in it.

Proponent of PaaS, CI/CD/Performance monitoring/Exception tracking.
Systems fail because of programming. Well, sure.

But programming fails because of miscommunication, lack of motivation and dialog.