Eliot Sykes
Rails Developer & Coach at Jet Boot Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEliot Sykes is a seasoned Rails developer and coach with 17 years of professional software experience and a deep involvement with Ruby on Rails since 2006. He runs Jet Boot Labs and works as an on-demand senior developer and mentor, combining hands-on engineering with developer training for clients and students. Eliot contributes to open source tooling and learning resources—maintaining projects that analyze real-world Rails apps and teach RSpec—while also improving widely used engines like Payola for Stripe payments. Based in London, he brings a practical full-stack background from startups to enterprise contracts (Rightmove, BSkyB, AOL) and a knack for turning legacy codebases into maintainable systems. Notably, his open-source work spans both front-end detection logic and backend analysis tooling, reflecting an unusual blend of product-focused engineering and developer-first education.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Information Technology, MSc, Information Technology at Queen Mary, University of LondonChrist's HospitalBEng, Mechanical Engineering, BEng, Mechanical Engineering at University College London
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Github Skills (42)
parserator10
ruby-rails10
devise10
javascript10
parser10
stripe10
testing10
browser-extension10
rspec10
rails10
capybara10
ruby10
code-analysis10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
eliotsykes/rspec-rails-examples
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
RSpec cheatsheet & Rails app: Learn how to expertly test Rails apps from a model codebase
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:228 commits, 74 PRs, 147 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Eliot focused on building and enhancing a Rails application for learning RSpec. They implemented a newsletter subscription feature, including model creation, controller logic, and view templates. They also added Devise for user authentication, incorporating login, logout, and registration functionalities with associated feature and model tests. The user further improved the UI by integrating the pickadate date picker and added page title management.
ruby-on-railsrails-appruby-gemrailsruby
eliotsykes/real-world-rails
May 2015 - Feb 2021
Real World Rails applications and their open source codebases for developers to learn from
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 321 commits, 142 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eliot primarily focused on building tools and infrastructure for analyzing Ruby on Rails applications. Their contributions include creating inspectors to analyze model and constant usage, along with a DSL for defining file specifications. The user refactored existing code, implemented features for detecting shared view directories, and improved output formatting for enhanced readability. The work demonstrates a strong focus on code analysis and tooling within a Rails environment.
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