Jay Tuley
Principal Software Engineer at Ekon Benefits
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJay Tuley is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building and modernizing production software at Ekon Benefits, where he progressed from Software Applications Engineer to technical lead. He blends hands-on full-stack development with system modernization, recently focusing on macOS tooling and migrations—evidenced by his work modernizing the cdto Finder-to-Terminal app and implementing a Swift version with improved iTerm and window-handling logic. Based in St. Louis and grounded in a Computer Science degree from UIUC, he excels at incremental modernization that reduces friction for end users and developers alike. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often surfaces subtle UX and integration edge cases (like Finder selection and window lifecycle) and turns them into robust features. Colleagues rely on him for steady architectural decisions and for shipping practical improvements that quietly boost developer productivity.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
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Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jbtule/cdto
Nov 2013 - Apr 2022
Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 68 commits, 16 PRs in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily worked on improving the `cdto` application, which opens the current directory in the Terminal. Their contributions include switching the application to use iTerm, modernizing X11 integration, and creating a Swift version of the application. The user also worked on fixing bugs related to Finder window selection and improving the window closing logic. Additionally, the user added features and settings for users.
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jbtule/ManyConsole.CommandLineUtils
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 releases, 36 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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