Jeff Wallace
Senior Software Engineer at Chime
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJeff Wallace is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable web applications from North Vancouver, BC. He blends deep Ruby on Rails backend expertise with modern front-end frameworks (React, Redux, AngularJS) and production-grade DevOps practices (Chef, Terraform, AWS). Throughout roles at Chime, ZenHub, and as a technical lead at zozi, he has guided cross-functional teams and mentored junior developers while owning full-stack architecture and deployments. An active contributor to the Rails i18n ecosystem, he improved core Globalize internals and locale handling through thoughtful refactors and test enhancements. Known for pursuing maintainability and performance, he regularly experiments with faster patterns and memoization to reduce runtime costs.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool, Highschool at Rockridge SecondaryEngineering, Software Engineering, Engineering, Software Engineering at McGill University
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
i18n-node10
rails10
ruby10
i18n-js10
activerecord10
i18next10
testing9
ruby-on-rails9
partials6
factory-bot6
angularjs6
haml6
solr6
json6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
globalize/globalize
Dec 2010 - Jan 2011
Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data translation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to the `globalize/globalize` repository, which is a Rails I18n library. Their commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the library's internal workings. Specifically, they optimized the code by memoizing methods within core classes. The user also added a new method and improved tests related to locale handling and translation within the library.
activerecordrails-i18n
tjwallace/resto-net
Sep 2010 - Apr 2011
Contributions:182 commits in 6 months
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