Welcome to my Portfolio site!

70% Back-end

30% Front-end

I’m Karl Heitmann, a software engineer specializing in the Ruby on Rails framework.

Since 2014, I’ve been building web applications—from my first part-time role at Chilean startup Resed, to remote positions at Poliglota, Jobsity, and Diio.

Along the way, I’ve also worked as a freelancer and taught a Ruby on Rails bootcamp, helping new developers get their start.

This site showcases my public GitHub projects, open-source contributions, and professional experience—have a look around.

Although my specialty is full-stack Ruby on Rails development, I believe a good programmer should explore a wide range of tools and technologies. That’s why I’ve built my own WordPress theme for this site, worked with Node.js and modern JavaScript frameworks like Vue and React, and even written my own TUIs in Rust—among other projects. See my About section to learn more about my coding philosophy.

My open source contributions

I really enjoy contribute to open source projects. When you open the "issues" tab of an open source project, you are taking a sneak peek to problems and issues a real world project is facing.

Bugfix: adds a panic hook to git-igitt project.

Skills

Rust

Adds a panic hook to properly close the virtual terminal created by the app, so your terminal won't become a mess...

git-igitt PR 60

Enhancement on RSpec diff formatter

Skills

RSpec

Ruby

An enhancement to make pretty diffs when an RSpec test fails and you are using the `anything` fuzzy matcher on your test.

rspec-support PR 599

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My Skills

The skills listed below are some of the skills I needed to have in order to submit the PRs described on this website, and to build the projects mentioned here.

Tailwind

	PRs	Experience	Projects
Count	0	0	1

Ruby

I started programming in Ruby in 2013, I when I was given a database assignment to do in Ruby on Rails. Next summer I joined Resed, a startup company, to do my internship as a fullstack web developer. Since then I’ve been doing ruby.

	PRs	Experience	Projects
Count	3	6	2

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My side projects

All my side projects are hosted on my GitHub profile . On this section you can find a selection of my side projects.

WordPress Theme Portfolio

Skills

Node.js

WordPress

Tailwind

The WordPress theme this site is using!

Library Management System

Skills

A technical exercise I solved. Ruby on Rails backend & React frontend. SPA to manage a library, includes authentication and authorization for librarians and members.

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