Jae Kaplan
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarJae Kaplan is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems across startups and large tech companies, currently working at the MBTA in Boston. They've led platform and build initiatives at companies like Discord—driving cloud streaming launches with major partners—and served as a senior build and release engineer at Apple. As a founding developer of an alternative social platform, they owned React/TypeScript front-end, Node.js back-end, SSR, and Kubernetes-based DevOps, growing the product to ~40k MAU with strong subscription conversion. Their open-source test automation work on the widely used CocoaPods xcodeproj repo shows a focus on test reliability and scalable CI through randomized ordering and parallelization. Comfortable shipping across the stack, Jae pairs operational rigor with product-minded engineering and has a track record of turning complex integrations into repeatable pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
ruby10
rspec10
xcode10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/Xcodeproj
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Create and modify Xcode projects from Ruby.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jae's contributions center around enhancing the testing infrastructure for the `xcodeproj` library. They implemented features for randomized test order, parallelization, and whitelisting, significantly improving test coverage and efficiency. Furthermore, the user refactored and adjusted existing tests, ensuring they align with updated schema naming conventions, demonstrating a focus on maintaining test accuracy and code quality within the project. These changes involved modification of existing tests and addition of new ones within the scheme test action specifically.
machplistmodifyrubyxcodeproj
jkap/minidisc-label-maker
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 3 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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