Andrew Vit
Senior Software Engineer at Aha!
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Vit is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience building and hardening SaaS products, currently contributing to Aha! from Vernon, BC. He blends deep Ruby on Rails backend expertise with DevOps and database engineering skills, having improved reliability in popular open-source projects like ohmyzsh and Ice Cube. As a former engineering manager at Guestfolio, he pairs hands-on coding with practical architectural thinking and performance-minded refactors. His open-source work shows attention to edge cases—time zones, DST, leap years—and pragmatic installer and configuration improvements that improve developer and user experiences. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on robustness, test coverage, and maintainability rather than flashy rewrites. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex systems and reduce operational friction.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (52)
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cookbook10
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percona10
mysql10
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sass10
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database-administration10
webpages10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube
Nov 2012 - Sep 2017
Ruby Date Recurrence Library - Allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:231 commits, 54 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Ruby Date Recurrence Library by implementing features and fixing issues. They focused on fixing time zone handling when using ActiveSupport and addressing issues related to leap years and DST boundaries. Furthermore, the user addressed test suite issues, improved test coverage, and refactored several tests by consolidating and aligning to support a simplified codebase.
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activerecord-hackery/ransack
Mar 2013 - Nov 2017
Object-based searching.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 56 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `ransack` library, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements to the core functionality. Their work involved modifying code related to attribute translation, context handling, and association joins within the Active Record adapter. They also addressed time-dependent test failures and refactored the codebase to improve maintainability. The contributions demonstrate expertise in ActiveRecord integration and query generation.
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