Jay Shepherd
Principle Software Engineer at ID.me
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolJay Shepherd is a Principal Software Engineer and architect with 14 years of professional experience, currently leading platform and API engineering at ID.me from Birmingham, Alabama. He has a long track record of modernizing legacy systems and designing web and mobile backends, particularly in Ruby on Rails, React, and cloud-native deployments across AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. As a founder and senior consultant he’s delivered domain-specific solutions for industries ranging from government and finance to e-commerce and healthcare, often owning architecture, API design, and operational tooling. Jay excels at turning complex integration requirements into maintainable systems—migrating legacy Rails apps, building inventory and repricing engines, and implementing third-party API orchestration. He pairs hands-on development with mentoring and technical leadership, having led teams, conducted technical hiring, and driven platform strategy. An engineer comfortable from low-level system design to product-facing features, he brings a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, test-driven software at scale.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Georgia State University
Stackoverflow
1,998reputation
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Github Skills (137)
primary-key9
aspect9
database-design9
database9
width9
authentication9
tableplus9
aspect-ratio9
amazon-mws9
mws8
rubymotion8
devise8
ruby-on-rails8
content-type8
activeadmin8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jayshepherd/activeadmin
Feb 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrailsadministrationruby
jayshepherd/devise_example
Jul 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsdeviseruby
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