Jed Schneider
Senior Software Consultant at Highwing
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJed Schneider is a senior software consultant and versatile engineering leader based in Portland, Oregon, blending 15 years of software development with 26 years of bicycle industry experience and a background as a former US National Team cyclist with 9 national championship medals. He combines hands-on craft with strategic delivery across Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Clojure, CoffeeScript, ES6/JavaScript, API development, AWS, front-end development, DevOps, and agile software practices, with a strong emphasis on test- and behavior-driven development. A proven remote/distributed team member for over a decade, he has led integrations and platform work at Highwing as Staff Software Engineer and Senior Backend/Platform Engineer, while running JAS Research & Development as an owner. His GitHub activity on Exercism's Elixir track demonstrates a commitment to code quality, maintaining reliable test suites and accurate lessons. He values partnering with technically strong teams that understand their business model and product, and seeks opportunities that blend leadership with hands-on engineering and practical, auditable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasSandia PrepB.S., Earth Science, B.S., Earth Science at Montana State University-BozemanApplication Programming Certificate, Computer Programming Technologies, Application Programming Certificate, Computer Programming Technologies at Midlands Technical College
ruby, coffeescript, clojure, javascript, java, elm, elixir
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Github Skills (21)
elixir10
testing10
exunit10
tracks10
git9
git-commit9
ruby9
ruby-on-rails-79
ruby-on-rails9
cc8
co8
acc8
macos6
sql6
cucumber6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/elixir
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Exercism exercises in Elixir.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jed primarily focused on improving the quality of the Elixir code examples within the Exercism platform. Their commits updated and revised existing test suites. These changes included fixing tests, and adjusting the test assertions to align with the examples in the lessons, showing a commitment to ensuring accurate and reliable code.
exercismelixirexercism-exercisesexercism-trackcommunity-contributions-accepted
jedschneider/laptop-local
Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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