David Jones
Principal Engineer at Chexology
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Jones is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of full-stack experience, currently leading architecture, APIs, iOS work, and devops at Chexology from Indianapolis. He has deep Ruby on Rails expertise complemented by front-end React/Ember experience and mobile development, with a long history of consulting and mentoring teams to raise engineering maturity. His open-source contributions include enhancing the widely used wicked_pdf plugin for Rails, improving cross-platform compatibility and helper tooling for PDF-from-HTML workflows. Comfortable in both startup and consultancy environments, he moves between hands-on coding and technical leadership, shipping reliable systems and coaching peers. A former instructor and Army-trained systems analyst, he brings a pragmatic blend of teaching, operational discipline, and product-focused engineering.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MOS74B Information Systems Operation & Analysis, MOS74B Information Systems Operation & Analysis at United States Army School of Information TechnologyIndustrial Technology; Computer Technology, Industrial Technology; Computer Technology at Purdue University
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Github Skills (18)
pdf10
rails10
ruby10
pdf-generation10
ruby-on-rails10
rubygems9
controller9
css9
rspec9
html9
wicked-pdf6
wkhtmltopdf6
arel6
actionmailer6
devise6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mileszs/wicked_pdf
Jan 2011 - Jan 2023
PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 21 reviews, 483 commits in 12 years 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to enhancing the Ruby on Rails plugin for PDF generation. The commits demonstrate the addition of multiple helper methods, specifically for inlining stylesheets, and for including and linking javascript files. They improved cross-OS compatibility with pathnames and refactored tests. Additionally, the user incorporated features such as basic authentication and the support for a render inline option.
pdfruby-on-rails
indyrb/indyrb.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:114 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 8 years 1 month
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