Jason Knabl
Senior Software Developer at GitLab
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJason Knabl is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of experience building scalable web applications, specializing in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He has focused recently on e-commerce financial and billing systems at companies like Shopify and GitLab, delivering mission-critical features and improving payment resiliency and cross-service reliability. Jason blends product-minded engineering with infrastructure work—introducing GraphQL APIs, preparing apps for horizontal DB scaling, and streamlining data archival for performance. He mentors engineers, leads design reviews, and has a track record of modernizing legacy stacks with pragmatic tools and practices. Based in Toronto, he pairs a technical Computer Science background with an English Literature degree, which surfaces in clear communication and thoughtful documentation.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Carleton UniversityB.A. (Hons.) English Literature, B.A. (Hons.) English Literature at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (10)
reddit9
praw9
api8
acronym8
oauth8
python7
columns5
ruby-on-rails2
ruby2
rails2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jknabl/snapshot_association
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 months
ruby-on-railsrailssnapshot-datarubycolumns
jknabl/libgenie
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year
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