Jamie Wilkinson
Cofounder CTO at glif
United States
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Top SchoolJamie Wilkinson is a software engineer with 15 years of experience building back-end systems and authentication integrations. Based in the United States, Jamie has contributed to prominent open-source projects like OmniAuth, adding OAuth strategies for services such as Vimeo, YouTube, and Tumblr and improving error handling and robustness in the core strategy. With a master's-level background in Financial Economics from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Jamie brings a data-minded, pragmatic approach to engineering problems. He combines hands-on implementation skills with attention to edge cases—decoding and timeout errors among them—helping make authentication flows more reliable across ecosystems. Jamie maintains a public portfolio at jamiedubs.com, signaling a practice of documenting work and experiments beyond code.
15 years of coding experience
Master's in Economics Financial Economics, Master's in Economics Financial Economics at Università degli Studi di Firenze
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Github Skills (20)
apim10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ruby10
api10
oauth10
json9
youtube9
tumblr9
vimeo9
testing7
spec7
mime-types6
ruby-on-rails6
content-type6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
omniauth/omniauth
Jan 2011 - May 2011
OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to implementing OAuth strategies for various services, including Vimeo, YouTube, and Tumblr. They added new strategies, modified existing ones, and addressed potential errors in the API responses. The user also made general improvements to the base OAuth strategy, such as handling decode errors and timeout errors. These changes enhanced the authentication capabilities of the OmniAuth library.
authenticationomniauthrack-middlewareruby
jamiew/spacecat
May 2017 - May 2021
Spacecat, the VHX chatbot
Contributions:7 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
chatbotbotshubotslack
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