Jeff Sholl
Senior Software Engineer at Gusto
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Sholl is a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years building and maintaining scalable backend systems, currently contributing to Gusto’s platform after leading backend architecture at Opportunity Education. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and AWS/Heroku, having managed a single API and Postgres instance powering multiple web and mobile applications and driven an 80% improvement in API response times. Jeff blends hands-on engineering with people management and hiring experience, having led a cross-functional product team and structured interview processes. He has a technical background stretching back to C++ desktop application development for psychometrics and even ran his own businesses, bringing product-minded pragmatism to engineering decisions. Holding a B.S. in Computer Science and graduate-level work in Cognitive Science, he pairs systems design skills with a user-centered perspective and a proven ability to optimize for low-bandwidth environments.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. ABT, Cognitive Science, M.A. ABT, Cognitive Science at Miami UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ball State University
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Github Skills (30)
testing10
ruby10
buildpack8
carrierwave8
heroku7
administration7
rails7
activeadmin7
turbolinks6
ruby-on-rails6
amazon-s36
rspec6
devise6
arbre6
jquery6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpportunityEducation/avatar-service
May 2019 - May 2022
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Contributions:7 PRs, 43 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years
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QuantumWaver/learnenough-sample_app
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
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