Brian Jones
Senior Web Developer at Luther College
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Jones is a seasoned Senior Web Developer with 16 years of hands-on experience designing and operating high-traffic, mixed Linux/Windows web systems and custom CMS platforms. At Luther College he led the architecture and redesign of luther.edu, authored an open-source Ruby on Rails CMS, and built real-time Node.js features that helped drive successful fundraising events. He brings deep full-stack expertise across Ruby on Rails, PHP, JavaScript/Node, SQL, DevOps tooling (Ansible, VirtualBox), and Unix/Linux administration, plus low-level experience in C and OpenGL. Comfortable mentoring students and small teams under tight deadlines, he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for integrating diverse third-party services and automating deployments. Based in Rochester, MN, he pairs academic rigor (MS in Computer Science) with decades of production systems experience and a demonstrated ability to translate technical complexity into clear outcomes for nontechnical stakeholders.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Art, General Science, BA, Art, General Science at Grinnell CollegeMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (19)
reason-react10
reason10
cms9
content-management9
php9
content-management-system8
learning-management-system7
ruby7
rails7
mono7
react7
js7
quill6
javascript6
edtech5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brifishjones/reason_package
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years
cmsmanagement-systemphpcontent-managementcontent-management-system
luthercollege/luther-deploy-virtualbox
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
an Ubuntu virtual box with the luthercollege/ansible GitHub repository
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
boxvirtual-boxansibledebianubuntu
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