Jeremy Ruppel
Staff Frontend Engineer at Flickr
Lawton, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Ruppel is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, production-ready web applications and leading teams through architecture to delivery. He has driven frontend excellence at Flickr and Coder and previously managed engineering at Flickr, blending hands-on implementation with team leadership. Jeremy's work spans the full web stack—from optimized backend contributions to popular open-source projects like Textacular and ActiveAdmin to frontend tooling improvements for libraries such as justified-layout. He has a track record of shipping high-throughput systems (helping deliver ~0.7M daily messages at RemindHQ) and internationalized, content-driven platforms at Evernote and AKQA. Passionate about best practices and emerging tech, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong test coverage and build-process improvements. Based in Lawton, Michigan, he combines product-minded frontend craft with deep Ruby/Rails and JavaScript expertise evident across widely used OSS projects.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS New Media Interactive Development Computer Audio Creative Writing, BS New Media Interactive Development Computer Audio Creative Writing at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
postgresql10
testing10
rspec10
http10
arbre10
rails10
ruby10
activeadmin10
html10
activerecord10
browserify10
nodejs10
full-text-search10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
flickr/justified-layout
Apr 2016 - Jan 2021
Pass in box sizes and get back sizes and coordinates for a justified layout
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 31 commits, 22 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily focused on improving the build process and codebase structure for the justified-layout project. They modified build scripts to incorporate browserifying and minification steps. Furthermore, the user adjusted the code to correctly scope layout configuration and data. They also addressed license comments and spacing, showing an attention to detail.
boxjustifiedlayoutjustified-layoutcoordinates
flickr/yakbak
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
Record and playback HTTP responses
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 71 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `yakbak` project, which is designed for recording and playback of HTTP responses. Their work involved refactoring code, adding debugging output, and ensuring compatibility across different Node.js versions. The user also focused on improving code maintainability by addressing variable shadowing and integrating with newer versions of dependencies.
recordplayback
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