Jeff Roush
Software Engineer at Edfinity
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Roush is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and testing Ruby on Rails applications, currently advancing education tech at Edfinity from Davis, CA. He specializes in TDD-driven development and QA automation with Capybara and Selenium, and has a track record of improving functionality and test coverage in open-source projects such as OpenGovernment. His background spans full-stack work, deployments with Capistrano/Webistrano, Coffeescript front-ends, and low-level embedded firmware—he even designed and built a nearly touch-sensitive fabric USB keyboard to solve his own ergonomic challenge. With formal training in physics (BA, MA) and deep practical experience across startups and product teams, he brings a pragmatic, test-first approach to reliability and user-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Physics, MA, Physics at University of OregonBA, Physics, BA, Physics at Amherst College
Github Skills (11)
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
integration-testing10
testing10
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
css6
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opengovernment/opengovernment
Jan 2011 - Jun 2011
OpenGovernment -- a project of the Participatory Politics Foundation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on improving the functionality and testing of the application. They fixed specifications, updated fixtures, and corrected deprecated code within the codebase. They also moved static text from views into the en locale, and added integration tests to ensure the changes. Additionally, they merged branches and added an exception check to handle uninitialized MongoDB instances.
opengovernmentpoliticsparticipatoryfoundation
jeff-r/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
publishingdotdot-files
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