Jason Buckner
Software Engineer at Astral Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Buckner is a seasoned software engineer and architect with 13 years of experience building delightful, user-focused products from mobile apps to backend services. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering with product instincts as founder of Astral Engineering (creator of the Live Music Archive iOS app) and through roles at Apple, MyFitnessPal, and the Internet Archive. He has strong iOS and backend chops, having led platform teams, shipped production apps, and contributed meaningful open-source work such as implementing push functionality for the popular homesick dotfiles tool. Jason excels at taking features from design through tests and documentation, and is comfortable operating between startup agility and large-company scale. His background in systems engineering and photography hints at a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach and an eye for elegant user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology at University of Central Florida
English
Stackoverflow
65reputation
4kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (14)
version-control10
thor10
git10
ruby10
testing7
emberjs6
csrf6
ember-qunit6
ember-data6
qunit6
ember-cli6
javascript6
security6
django6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
technicalpickles/homesick
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on implementing "push" functionality within the `homesick` project, adding features that enabled pushing changes to a "castle". Their work involved creating commands to commit and push changes, modifying core files like `lib/homesick.rb` and `lib/homesick/actions.rb`. They also added testing and documentation related to the "push" feature and refactored code to improve naming consistency and control.
dotfilescastledirectory
internetarchive/iaux-promised-singleton
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
An ES module library for lazy-loading singletons
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 9 months
javascriptlazy-loadinges-module
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