Brian Ford
Dir Of Software Development at North Pacific Union Conference
Ridgefield, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ford is a seasoned software leader with 19 years of experience, currently serving as Director of Software Development in Ridgefield, Washington. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer, he blends hardware-minded rigor with modern software practices to lead reliable, test-driven development efforts. He contributes to notable open-source projects, including ruby/spec where he strengthened test coverage for language features, and helped modernize the json-api documentation into a polished Jekyll site. Known for improving quality through automation and clear documentation, he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and developer experience. Occasionally diving into front- and back-end work himself, he balances strategic leadership with hands-on engineering.
19 years of coding experience
BS Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Walla Walla CollegeWashington State University
Github Skills (14)
html10
unit-testing10
css10
syntax-highlighting10
jekyll10
test-automation10
ruby10
encoding9
github-pages9
javascript9
documentation8
regular-expression7
text-manipulation7
strings7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ruby/spec
Dec 2010 - Aug 2017
The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:701 commits, 1 comment in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the ruby/spec repository, focusing on enhancing and expanding test coverage. The user added new specs, fixed existing ones, and improved the general quality of test suites. The majority of commits involve adding tests for specific language features, and updating them for different Ruby versions. Some contributions included improving documentation.
ruby-gemmspecrailsrubyspec
json-api/json-api
May 2013 - Oct 2013
A specification for building JSON APIs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on updating the structure and styling of the documentation site. They restructured the project into a Jekyll site, updated the CSS to improve the visual presentation, and added features such as an examples and FAQ page. The user also implemented syntax highlighting using highlight.js, enhancing the readability of code examples.
apijsonapispecificationjson-apisjson-schema
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