Jay Dorsey
United States
Summary
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SeniorJay Dorsey is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and a proven ability to design and operate high-availability systems in regulated, security-conscious environments. He excels at balancing developer velocity with compliance through automated infrastructure, developer tooling, and rigorous code quality governance, repeatedly cutting CI times and SaaS spend by 50%+. Jay has driven large defect and CVE reductions (including a 99% drop in error volume at a prior employer), led legacy sunsetting with zero downtime, and re-oriented testing practices to eliminate flakiness. Comfortable from frontend to backend, he pragmatically applies modern AI tools and is exploring Rust, Elixir, and Crystal to broaden his toolset. He combines hands-on architecture and mentoring experience with a track record of measurable operational impact across startups and health-tech platforms.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
3,643reputation
277kreached
150answers
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ruby
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
powerline10
testing10
statusline10
rspec10
heroicons10
glyph10
swagger-ui10
html10
fonts10
cucumber10
api-blueprint10
font-awesome10
package-manager10
python10
bash10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jaybocop/nonstandard
May 2021 - Jan 2023
An opinionated set of rubocop preferences
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
rubocopruby
jaydorsey/blocklist
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:141 commits, 126 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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