Chuck Callebs
Engineering Manager at Thumbtack
Saint George, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuck Callebs is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and scaling web platforms and teams at companies including Etsy, Coinbase, and Thumbtack. He combines hands-on backend expertise—especially in Ruby on Rails—with leadership across growth-stage and consumer-facing products, having progressed from senior engineer to manager roles. Chuck has contributed to well-known open-source Ruby tooling by refactoring ActiveAdmin’s filter system, showing attention to maintainability and UX for admin interfaces. Based in Saint George, Utah, he brings a practical blend of legacy systems experience (C++, .NET, Fortran) and modern web practices, which helps him navigate complex migrations and cross-functional delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who turns messy technical debt into predictable, testable systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kentucky
Stackoverflow
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152answers
32questions
sql
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ruby-on-rails
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jquery
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migration
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bitbucket
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javascript
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
rails10
migration10
ruby10
activeadmin10
filter10
javascript9
jquery9
ransack9
bitbucket9
sql9
ruby-on-rails9
html9
asp-net6
php6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
activeadmin/activeadmin
Jul 2014 - Feb 2017
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 55 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chuck primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Active Admin framework's filter functionality. Their work involved extracting and reorganizing filter logic into dedicated classes, such as `Active` and `Humanized`. They also worked on implementing a "Search Status" sidebar, including parsing and displaying active filter parameters. Furthermore, the user refactored and refined the code for displaying and parsing filters and their values.
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrailsadministrationarbre
ccallebs/griddler-amazon_ses
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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