Jay Whiting
Owner at The Dev Squad
Greater Perth Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Whiting is a self-taught web designer and entrepreneur based in Perth with over a decade of hands-on experience building web apps, APIs and e-commerce solutions. As founder of The Dev Squad and former CTO/project lead roles, he combines full‑stack Ruby on Rails expertise with practical AWS and Docker microservice experience to deliver production systems and vendor integrations. He’s mentored at Startup Weekends and RailsGirls, co-created Perth Startup School, and actively champions coding for younger learners—having even built the CoderDojoWA site. Comfortable shifting between client work, startup leadership and teaching, Jay brings a mix of technical depth, product sensibility and community-minded mentorship that helps non-technical founders bridge the gap to build real products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Awesome, Web Development & Design, Bachelor of Awesome, Web Development & Design at Self-taught
English
Github Skills (32)
form-objects6
traits6
dsl6
ruby5
plugin5
rails5
form-builder4
php4
client-library4
markup4
ruby-on-rails4
decorators3
activemodel3
digest3
editing3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
randomizor/misfit_gem
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 9 months
client-libraryretrieve-datashineretrieve
randomizor/sinatra-swagger
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Provides helper functions for accessing Swagger documentation from within a Sinatra webapp.
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 months
swaggerredocsinatraswagger-documentationswagger-ui
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