Cody Caughlan
Co-Founder CTO at Stellashare
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCody Caughlan is a pragmatic Co-Founder and CTO with 15 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud-native products for mobile and web. Based in San Francisco, he founded Vinosmith to consolidate sales, distributor and tasting workflows for wineries, and previously built consumer-focused photo and location apps where he owned backend architecture and deployment. He moves between product thinking and code fluently—designing APIs, search layers and async processing while managing AWS infrastructure and CI. Cody is an active contributor to the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, improving testing and release practices for libraries like quickbooks-ruby and refactoring popular plugins into gems. Known for shipping complete systems end-to-end, he blends startup grit with disciplined engineering practices and an eye for observability and testability. His background includes large-scale search and indexing work (Apache Solr) and deep experience turning legacy stacks into maintainable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Life CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
unit-testing10
git10
backtrace10
android-room10
rails10
ruby10
quickbooks-online10
php10
api10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
mysql9
postgresql9
ajax9
debugging9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brunofacca/active-record-query-trace
Jun 2011 - May 2017
Rails plugin that logs/displays a backtrace of all SQL queries executed by Active Record
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years
Contributions summary:Cody primarily focused on refactoring and improving the existing Rails plugin. Their contributions involved converting the plugin into a gem, addressing module name errors, and managing version updates. They also implemented a change to the logging format, enhancing the information displayed during query tracing. Furthermore, they added bundler gem tasks for release management.
ruby-on-railssql-queriesdisplaysrailssql
ruckus/quickbooks-ruby
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
Quickbooks Online REST API V3 - Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 455 commits, 145 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cody has primarily contributed to building out the testing infrastructure for the Quickbooks Ruby library. The user added and expanded upon the existing unit tests by implementing new test cases. Their work includes the creation of tests for customer and invoice models, as well as customer and invoice services. The user focused on adding robust unit tests to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the Quickbooks Online REST API V3 Ruby library.
apiapi-v3rubyrestquickbooks
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