Brendan Deere
Senior Software Engineer at Jane App
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Deere is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining end-to-end web applications, currently contributing at Jane App from Ottawa. He brings deep Ruby on Rails and e-commerce expertise, having worked on Solidus and implemented backend features and integrations at Stembolt and Shopify. Brendan has a track record of improving core platform behavior (including API compatibility and customizable stock estimators in Solidus) and operating CI and server infrastructure for production systems. He pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship experience—from teaching web fundamentals to onboarding engineers—and is comfortable navigating large legacy codebases. His integrated engineering background and practical bootcamp training give him a blend of formal systems thinking and pragmatic delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Integrated Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Integrated Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaWeb Development Bootcamp, Ruby and Rails web technologies, Web Development Bootcamp, Ruby and Rails web technologies at Lighthouse Labs
French, English
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
ruby-rails10
rails10
commerce10
ecommerce10
ruby10
git6
lit6
activerecord6
css6
bash6
unix6
python6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
solidusio/solidus
May 2015 - Dec 2015
🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 10 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Brendan made several contributions focused on enhancing the core functionality of the Solidus e-commerce framework. Their work includes adding an alias for the `orders` association in the `UserMethods` module, which improves API compatibility. They also addressed a deprecation warning in an initializer and implemented testing for the `Spree::UserMethods`. Additionally, they implemented a feature allowing customization of stock estimators.
ecommercerailssolidusrubyshopping-cart
brendandeere/password-store
Feb 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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