Jason Waldrip
CTO at GigSmart
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarJason Waldrip is a seasoned CTO with 14 years of experience leading product and engineering at emerging tech startups, currently steering technology at GigSmart from Denver. He brings hands-on fluency in Ruby, Go, JavaScript, SQL, Crystal and React, and a track record of shipping scalable APIs, infrastructure, and product-focused systems. An active open-source maintainer and creator of over 20 projects, he has made notable backend performance and import-process improvements to a widely used Elasticsearch Ruby library. Passionate about ongoing development education and mentoring, he blends strategic leadership with developer-level craftsmanship and holds a Certified Scrum Product Owner credential.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
amazon-elasticsearch10
memory-optimization10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
ruby10
java9
macos9
rake9
performance-tuning9
activerecord8
mongoid8
mongodb8
kaminari7
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
karmi/retire
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
A rich Ruby API and DSL for the Elasticsearch search engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jason contributed significantly to the backend functionality of the Elasticsearch Ruby API library. Their work included optimizing memory usage during large data imports by integrating garbage collection, enhancing the import process through adapter-specific implementations for different ORMs, and fixing a bug related to merging fields with _source. Additionally, the user extracted and refactored the import Rake task. These contributions improve performance, add flexibility for different data models, and fix edge cases related to data retrieval.
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brandfolder/gcp-flynn
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:38 PRs, 132 pushes, 2 branches in 15 days
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