Jeremy Ayerst
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Ayerst is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications and infrastructure at Amazon and prior roles in commerce and support organizations. He brings a polyglot engineering toolkit—Java, PHP, Go, JavaScript, React.js—and a strong grounding in security and QA, evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like webpack and react-chartjs-2. His open-source work spans front-end component improvements for dynamic charting and hardened test coverage for webpack plugins, showing attention to both user-facing quality and developer reliability. Comfortable moving between product code, testing automation, and platform engineering, he pairs practical production experience with a history in IT support and systems administration that helps him bridge dev and ops concerns.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Brandon University
Github Skills (14)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
javascript10
chartjs10
webpacker10
react10
plugin10
webpack10
test-automation10
testing10
bundle9
bundler9
loader8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reactchartjs/react-chartjs-2
Dec 2016 - Nov 2020
React components for Chart.js, the most popular charting library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 3 reviews, 83 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the React components of the charting library, react-chartjs-2, focusing on improvements to the dynamic chart updates and adding new examples. Their work involved updating the chart dynamically, adding examples for randomized line charts, and making the datasets more flexible. The changes included modifications to the core component logic.
visualizationchartsreactchart-jschart
webpack/webpack
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the testing framework of the webpack project. Their commits added and modified tests for the ContextReplacementPlugin, enhancing its testing coverage. These changes involved creating new test cases, improving the existing tests, and adjusting path references for better compatibility. The user's work ensures the proper functionality of the ContextReplacementPlugin and the overall reliability of webpack.
amdloaderscode-splittingcustom-stuffcompiler
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