Jeffrey Surrett
Senior Engineering Manager at Self-Employed
South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Surrett is a Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of software and leadership experience, currently shaping teams and R&D culture at Greenhouse Software from South Carolina. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—particularly Ruby on Rails and front-end work like integrating TinyMCE and polishing UI in the ActiveScaffold project—with people-focused management: hiring, mentoring, career ladder design, and onboarding product leaders. His background spans building multitenant web apps, API-driven services at scale, and leading cross-functional efforts to reduce API errors for systems serving millions of requests per day. A former educator and missionary, he brings rare strengths in training, curriculum-style career development, and long-term product ownership dating back to custom school administration systems he built and still maintains.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Secondary Education, 3.83, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Secondary Education, 3.83 at Pensacola Christian CollegeHigh School, High School at Fetzer Memorial Christian Academy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
css10
front-end-development10
tinymce10
javascript9
html8
ruby-on-rails7
rails7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
activescaffold/active_scaffold
Jan 2011 - Feb 2017
Save time and headaches, and create a more easily maintainable set of pages, with ActiveScaffold. ActiveScaffold handles all your CRUD (create, read, update, delete) user interface needs, leaving you more time to focus on more challenging (and interesting!) problems.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily focused on front-end development within the ActiveScaffold framework. Their contributions involved styling and layout adjustments using CSS, specifically reformatting the menu for action groups and refining the overall appearance. They also worked on integrating TinyMCE, a rich text editor, and made adjustments to the associated bridge files to ensure proper functionality within the ActiveScaffold environment. Furthermore, they modified view files related to action groups.
ruby-on-railsuser-interfacerails-apiheadachesrails
edudatas/user_docs
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 review, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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