Collin Jilbert
Ruby On Rails Developer at GoRails
Covington, Louisiana, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolCollin Jilbert is a Ruby on Rails developer with six years of professional experience who blends a background in audio engineering with a strong focus on testing and backend reliability. Based in Mandeville, Louisiana, he contributes to impactful open-source projects like rubyforgood/casa and pay-rails/pay, improving data integrity, payments flexibility, and email-driven subscription flows. At GoRails he continues to deepen Rails expertise while applying an engineer’s attention to signal and noise learned from live audio work. Known for pragmatic backend solutions—validations, metered billing, and processor toggles—he favors designs that prevent failures before they surface. Collin’s cross-disciplinary background gives him a practical user-focused perspective that surfaces in form and UX improvements as well as robust test coverage.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Audio Engineering, Associate's degree, Audio Engineering at Delgado Community CollegeSoftware Engineering, Web Developement, Software Engineering, Web Developement at Flatiron School
Github Skills (19)
paddle10
ruby-rails10
subscribe10
validations10
stripe10
rspec10
rails10
validation10
ruby10
manage10
braintree10
subscriber10
payment10
management10
activerecord10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pay-rails/pay
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Payments for Ruby on Rails apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 28 commits, 26 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Collin primarily contributed to the backend of the Rails-based payment application. They focused on enhancing the application's flexibility by enabling and disabling payment processors. The user also implemented functionality for metered billing and email notifications, including subscription management, payment failure, and trial-related email communications. Their work involved modifying core components, integrating with payment gateways, and improving the system's responsiveness to various events.
ruby-on-railspaymentspaystriperails
rubyforgood/casa
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 23 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Collin focused on implementing and validating data integrity rules within the application. They added validations to prevent future dates for the `occurred_at` field in the `CaseContact` model, and added tests to ensure this validation works correctly. The user also made changes to the case contact form, modifying the `contact_made` field to use radio buttons and adding prompts to helper methods, showing a focus on improving the user experience. Additional contributions include updating the display on the case contacts page for admins and supervisors.
servesyouthr4gmanagement-systemcasa
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.