Jay Ohms
Principal Programmer And Mobile Team Lead at 37signals
Greater Indianapolis United States
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Top SchoolJay Ohms is a Principal Programmer and Mobile Team Lead with over a decade of experience building mobile-first experiences from Indianapolis, currently leading the Mobile team at 37signals. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Android and iOS development, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like turbo-ios where he improved web view handling, logging, and form submission observability. Jay blends product-focused engineering with team leadership, having progressed from co-founding a small shop to senior roles at Basecamp and long tenure at 37signals. He is practical and detail-oriented, often addressing subtle cross-platform edge cases that improve real-world app reliability. Jay holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Taylor University and pairs entrepreneurial experience with steady stewardship of production mobile platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Taylor University
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Github Skills (7)
wkwebview10
swift10
ios10
turbo10
testing9
android6
android-viewpager6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hotwired/turbo-ios
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
iOS framework for making Turbo native apps
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 29 reviews, 27 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the Turbo iOS framework by addressing various issues and implementing new features. Their work included allowing blob URLs in web views, skipping same-page anchor scrolling for native-initiated visits, fixing broken tests by conforming a test class to a protocol, and improving logging with more relevant details and arguments. They also exposed a new API to clear the snapshot cache and added the ability to observe form submission events.
ios-frameworkturboswiftioshybrid
hotwired/hotwire-native-android
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Hotwire Native for Android
Contributions:4 releases, 8 reviews, 44 PRs in 5 months
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