Bobby Santiago

I am one of those people who say "I'm a designer who develops, and a developer who designs", in my case it's weighted more towards the front-end. I specialize in Ruby on Rails-powered apps, and my toolset consists of Backbone.js, AngularJS, Coffeescript, jQuery, Javascript, Haml, and SASS.

Recent work
I recently finished working on http://worldscienceu.com (full-stack, heavy on the frontend) and I'm finishing up an AngularJS-powered app. Last year, I worked on http://ed.ted.com (Ruby on Rails, full-stack).

Bits and pieces about me

• I was part of the design team that gave the world the Timex Indiglo watches
• I once sang backup on a TV commercial I conceptualized
• I have played drums before 4,500 screaming females
• I sold my first acrylic painting at age 5
• I was the undefeated Spelling Bee champion up to sixth grade
• I was once Steve "Afghan Girl" McCurry's guide in southern Philippines in the '80s
• I helped feed evacuees after Mt. Pinatubo erupted
• I saw Jeff Beck back to back with Stevie Ray Vaughan before Stevie Ray died
• I once took the exams for our school paper (came in 1st) before trying out for our varsity in basketball (made starting five) in one afternoon
• I have designed, on a lark, an actual house
• I am ambidextrous
• I once dunked a basketball
• I can tell a cabernet sauvignon from a merlot.
• I have used a Mac since 1985
• I once led and won a pitch over the best ad agency in the country.