About Me
My name is Akshay, and I'm a software developer living in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. I grew up in India, but Canada has been my home for the past 10 years.
I love programming in Ruby and building web applications with Rails. This blog is my attempt to share my learnings and to spread the joy of programming in Ruby with the world. Every day, I try to learn something new in Ruby and Rails and write about it.
If you're not a programmer and don't know what or who Ruby is, it's a programming language from Japan that runs many of the web applications that you know and love. Think Shopify, GitHub, Basecamp, AirBnb, Twitch, Dribbble, SoundCloud, Intercom, etc...the list is endless. Rails is a framework that makes it very easy and enjoyable to build these web applications.
For a long time, I worked as a C#/.NET developer, building enterprise applications on Windows. In early 2021, I started learning Ruby and Rails for a side project. After six years of .NET, programming Ruby felt like a breath of fresh air. Within a week, I was in love with this beautiful programming language. After immersing myself in Ruby for a few months, I decided to switch from C#/.NET to Ruby on Rails.
What Do You Do?
I own and run TypeAngle, an independent software consultancy based out of Victoria, BC, specializing in Ruby on Rails. In other words, you can hire me as a contractor to work on your Rails apps, either on a single project, or on an ongoing basis. Since launching in early 2024, I’ve successfully completed projects for multiple clients and continue to work with several on an ongoing retainer basis.
Check out the testimonials from my clients and the people I've worked with.
Building websites and web-applications with Ruby and Rails is something I really enjoy and love. If you'd like to work with me, please send me an email. If you have a Rails app that you need to build, maintain, or enhance, or build/migrate a website to Rails, get in touch. Most of my clients are in Canada and US, but in the past, I've worked with European and Australian companies as well.
As a software developer, my primary goal is to build useful software that solves problems, provides value to the users, and makes money for my clients, and I approach all my projects with the same mindset. I am very passionate about software development, always looking forward to learning new skills to become a better software developer.
Why Do You Blog?
I started this blog in 2021, right when I started learning Ruby on Rails. I don’t mean to be too dramatic, but Ruby on Rails and writing on this blog changed my life. Everything that came after was made possible by this blog.
This blog exists purely for selfish reasons. I find the field of software development endlessly fascinating and wanted to track everything I learned about building software over time.
I also found that the best way for me to learn a topic was to research how it works, write a blog post that teaches that topic in simple words, and then put it on the Internet to reference when needed in the future. If others find these posts helpful, relevant, or interesting, that's just the icing on the cake.
For a brief backstory of this blog and the name Write Software, Well, check out this post: Akshay’s Blog is now Write Software, Well
This blog is a labor of love. Programming and writing are two activities that really make me happy, and this blog lets me do them both. More than 30,000 Ruby and Rails programmers read it each month. The new developer friends and connections I've made all over the world is a fantastic reward in and of itself.
If you think I can add value to your team or organization, or just want to say hello, please drop me an email. I look forward to talking to you.
Thanks for stopping by.