Forrest Zeisler
Co-Founder And CTO at Jobber - Software for Mobile Services
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolForrest Zeisler is a seasoned software leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Jobber, where over 14+ years he’s scaled a product that helps small mobile service businesses manage quoting, scheduling, invoicing and payments for billions in annual services. He blends strategic product leadership with hands-on engineering—aligning PM, design and BizOps to turn customer insights into measurable growth while deliberately avoiding being the smartest person in the room. A University of Alberta software engineering graduate, Forrest contributes to the Ruby ecosystem (notably fixes and features in gems like ice_cube and acts_as_list) and has full-stack experience building recurring-event selectors and integrations. He’s equally focused on culture and hiring, having shaped Jobber’s playbook from the ground up, and still spends time solving thorny technical problems or hiring people smarter than himself.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering at University of Alberta
Github Skills (16)
testing10
activerecord10
rspec10
datetime10
javascript10
coffeescript10
ruby10
plugin-development9
ruby-rails8
rails8
sql7
sc7
jquery7
css7
html7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gregschmit/recurring_select
Nov 2011 - Apr 2015
A gem for adding selectors for setting recurring events.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:122 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Forrest focused on implementing a recurring events selector, demonstrating both front-end and back-end development. They implemented JavaScript and CoffeeScript code for the user interface and dialog interactions. Additionally, the user worked on Ruby code, specifically extending form builder functionality to handle recurring options using the IceCube library, showcasing contributions to the back-end logic and gem integration.
recurring-events
ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube
Dec 2011 - Oct 2012
Ruby Date Recurrence Library - Allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Forrest primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring within the `ice_cube-ruby/ice_cube` repository, a Ruby Date Recurrence Library. They addressed issues such as nil comparisons and DST boundary handling, improving the library's robustness. The user added failing specs, and refactored methods related to the core functionality. Additionally, they cleaned up whitespace in several files.
recurrence-rulesruby
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