Jack Ellis
Founder at Fathom Analytics
Canada
Summary
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RockstarJack Ellis is a founder and software engineer with 14 years’ experience building privacy-focused web products and developer tools. He founded and runs Fathom Analytics, a profitable, independently owned Google Analytics alternative that emphasizes simplicity and user privacy. Previously he led consulting and development through JackEllisWeb, specializing in Laravel and Ember.js, and has taught serverless PHP to over 1,500 engineers. An active back-end contributor to projects like Kohana core, he focuses on bug fixes, test coverage, and robust routing/validation logic—evidence of his attention to quality and maintainability. Based in Canada, he blends entrepreneurial drive with hands-on engineering and a knack for turning complex tracking problems into elegant, privacy-first solutions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (6)
data-manipulation10
unit-testing10
php10
validation9
validations9
url-routing9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kohana/core
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Core system classes from Kohana
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Kohana framework's core. They addressed issues related to validation labels and URI encoding in the routing system. Furthermore, the user corrected a typo and resolved an array merging issue. The commits also show a focus on writing and improving unit tests, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and testing practices within the project.
kohana
usefathom/wordpress-plugin
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
A simple plugin to add the Fathom tracking snippet to your WordPress site.
Contributions:2 releases, 14 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 2 months
wordpress
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