Shelling Hsu

Shelling Hsu is a highly experienced software engineer proficient in Ruby, Perl, and JavaScript. With over 7 years of experience in Perl and Ruby/Rails development, Shelling is renowned for authoring multiple Ruby gems and Perl modules. Shelling has showcased expertise as a speaker at prestigious conferences like RubyConf.tw 2012 and YAPC::Asia 2012, in addition to actively participating in various open-source events.

During Shelling's tenure as the Technical Lead at rtaiwanr.com, an Uber-like online travel agency, Google Analytics demonstrated remarkable achievements with a 40% - 70% monthly revenue increase and a 70% rise in orders over a consistent 6-month period. Previously, Shelling has held positions at reputable companies such as Bulavard Inc., Listia Inc., and StorySense in Silicon Valley, further enriching their professional background.

With a strong foundation in Ruby, Shelling excels as a Rails Developer since 2007, consulting for small companies, and embracing a pragmatic approach to TDD/BDD using tools like Rspec and FactoryGirl. Proficient in Puppet for production environments since 2011, Shelling demonstrates deep understanding of Ruby internals, C/C++ binding mechanisms, large project architecture, performance optimization, and asset acceleration. Additionally, Shelling is adept at Backbone and Angular integration.

In the realm of Perl, Shelling's expertise spans over a decade since 2006, earning recognition as a CPAN author and practicing TDD with modules like Test::More and Test::Class. An insightful individual, Shelling possesses in-depth comprehension of MogileFS internals within the Perl ecosystem.

Beyond specific language proficiencies, Shelling boasts broader technical experiences with 4 years in AWS, a rich background in Vim and Emacs spanning 7 and 4 years respectively, as well as exposure to Backbone and Angular for 2 and 1 year each.

Academically, Shelling pursued a Master's degree in Photonics and Optoelectronics from National Taiwan University following a Bachelor's degree in Photonics at National Chiao Tung University.

Throughout Shelling's career, notable roles have included positions at Atlassian as a Senior Software Engineer, and previous engagements at Zero, DoorDash, Linc Global Inc, Shopline, roundTAIWANround, Bulavard Inc., Listia Inc., StorySense Computing, Inc., Trend Micro, and Handlino.

For more insights into Shelling's work, check out their GitHub (https://github.com/shelling), RubyGems (http://rubygems.org/profiles/shelling), and CPAN (https://metacpan.org/author/SHELLING) profiles.