Bo Jeanes
Principal Software Engineer at Hive Technology Labs
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBo Jeanes is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building reliable back-end architectures and full‑stack systems, currently leading engineering at Hive Technology Labs from Bendigo, Australia. A long‑time Ruby expert with deep production experience in Postgres, JS and Typescript, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a fascination for simplicity and maintainability. His career includes senior roles at Heroku, Groupon and Covidence and open-source contributions to well-known projects like the Heroku CLI, rodauth and the RubyMoney library. More recently he has been exploring Rust and Elixir—choosing languages that push safety, expressivity and performance—while keeping a foothold in Clojure and other experiments. He has a track record of improving developer tooling, authentication infrastructure and data presentation (e.g., reusable table output and multi-line cell support in Heroku CLI), blending hands‑on coding with product and team leadership.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Web Development, Software Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Databases, Bachelor of IT, Web Development, Software Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Databases at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)High School, High School at Rudolf Steiner SchoolSummer Course on C Programming, Summer Course on C Programming at Columbia University
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Github Skills (38)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
addin10
webauthn10
testing10
format-table10
cucumber10
formatting10
rspec10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
capybara10
ruby10
heroku-cli10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/cli
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Heroku CLI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 8 comments, 1 issue in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bo focused on implementing the `table` module and related functions within the `heroku/cli` repository. They extracted table output logic into a reusable module, making it easier to display data related to add-ons. The user also introduced multi-line cell support, improving the formatting of the table output. They also made the --all and --app features function correctly with and without add-ons.
herokunpm-clibuildpackheroku-cliheroku-cli-plugin
jeremyevans/rodauth
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
Ruby's Most Advanced Authentication Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bo's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Rodauth authentication framework. They implemented translatable labels, extracted functionality for Webauthn integration, and addressed bugs related to credential handling. The user also introduced around hooks and added functionality related to remembered sessions. The commits demonstrate a focus on refining the core functionality and adding features to the authentication framework.
authenticationframeworkrubyauthentication-framework
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