Brennan Dunn is a seasoned software entrepreneur and engineer with 17 years of experience building and leading technology teams. He founded We Are Titans in 2008, growing a mid-Atlantic product development agency, and since 2023 has been steering RightMessage as Founder after a prior Co-Founder stint. His work spans full-stack development and SaaS leadership, from Rails-based fleet management at Decisiv Inc to scaling technical operations at WorldMedia. In the open-source sphere, he contributed to geokit/geokit-rails, focusing on refactoring, test-suite hardening, and multi-database support to run outside a Rails project, showcasing a pragmatic, production-oriented mindset. Based in Hinckley and Bosworth, England, with a background in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University, Brennan blends startup hustle with disciplined engineering to deliver scalable, customer-focused software.
Official Geokit plugin for Rails/ActiveRecord. Provides location-based goodness for your Rails app. Requires the Geokit gem.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brennan focused on refactoring and improving the test suite, making it independent of a Rails project. They addressed controller test failures and updated the tests to use `ActionController::TestCase`. Furthermore, the user added support for different database adapters, specifically PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server, which involved restructuring the codebase for database-specific implementations.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 9 years 7 months
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