Caleb St John
Software Engineering Supervisor at iXsystems
Katavi Region, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb St John is a software engineering supervisor with eight years leading backend and API teams for TrueNAS at iXsystems, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership and design documentation. He combines deep systems and networking experience—from MPLS/BGP and VMware to pfSense and TrueNAS—gained across roles in healthcare and enterprise environments where security and compliance (HIPAA, PCI DSS) were operational priorities. An active contributor to the well-known TrueNAS open-source projects, he has improved middleware performance and refined web UI failover and network interface behaviors, showing fluency across front-end and back-end stacks. Caleb is comfortable reviewing and stabilizing legacy codebases, writing feature designs, and managing engineering resources to deliver reliable storage software. Uncommonly for a supervisor, he still implements low-level fixes and whitespace/typo cleanups himself, signaling a hands-on mindset that keeps teams pragmatic and quality-focused. Based in the Katavi Region with US ties, he merges infrastructure pedigree with storage software craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at ITT Technical jobs USA
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
python10
ui-design10
webui10
uid10
front-end-development10
nas10
typescript9
bash9
failover9
css9
typescript-types9
zfs9
typescripts9
html9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
truenas/middleware
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise/SCALE Middleware Git Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5129 reviews, 1970 commits, 5501 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily focused on improving and maintaining the TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise/SCALE Middleware Git Repository. Their contributions included adding a module to the freenas-debug tool, making adjustments to existing modules, and addressing issues by modifying existing files. In addition, they worked on enhancing performance with the addition of a missing feature. The code changes also involved fixing white-space and small typo fixes.
enterprisenfsiscsigit-repositorytruenas
truenas/webui
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
TrueNAS UI
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 16 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily focused on modifying the TrueNAS web UI, making changes to network interface configurations and enclosure mapping. They altered the UI components, specifically changing input types and adding strings to improve functionality. The contributions also included updates to failover configurations, adding new reasons and making the UI more aware of failover status.
truenasangular-uiangular
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