Summary
Isaac Priestley is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years building maintainable, high-traffic web applications—especially Ruby on Rails and React—across e-commerce, edtech, and agency environments. He has driven measurable impact like 30% faster API response times, automated weekly manual work to save 20 hours, and architected course systems used by over 10,000 instructors. Comfortable across the stack, Isaac has integrated payment and shipping systems, improved search with ElasticSearch, and focused on developer-friendly, maintainable codebases. Based in Blairstown, NJ, he seeks work that pairs technical craft with a mission-driven business model, and he brings a pragmatic creativity for solving product and operational challenges.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer