Jeremy Lightsmith
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeremy Lightsmith is a seasoned technology leader, coach, and founder with nearly three decades of hands-on experience building software, teams, and products across startups and enterprise clients. As a founder of Transparent Classroom and now a leadership coach and fractional CTO, he blends deep technical chops (Ruby/Rails, systems architecture, CI tooling contributions) with expert facilitation, mediation, and agile coaching to help teams at inflection points. He has a proven track record of driving projects to release, creating high-trust teams, and giving founders visibility and control over delivery. Notably, his open-source work on CruiseControl.rb reflects a pragmatic approach to improving build systems and developer workflows. Based in Seattle, he seeks opportunities that value action, continuous improvement, and strong people skills.
19 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
subversion10
build-automation10
cicd10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
thoughtworks/cruisecontrol.rb
Jan 2007 - Mar 2008
CruiseControl for Ruby. Keep it simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:137 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the core functionality of the CruiseControl.rb project, which includes creating and modifying build processes. They implemented and refined features for the build system, like adding logging capabilities. Additionally, the user updated the code to properly handle and generate environment variables for the build tasks, which likely improved the flexibility of the build process. They made several adjustments to fix bugs and improve various areas of the build process to ensure that the builds are completed properly.
cruisecontrolruby
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