Jerod Santo
Founder at Object Lateral, Inc.
Bennington, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerod Santo is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience blending hands-on development, teaching, and editorial leadership from rural Nebraska. He founded and ran a small software consultancy, taught web development as a lead instructor, and spent over a decade managing editorial and production at Changelog Media, where he also contributes full‑stack code to the well-knownchangelog/transcripts project to improve podcast transcript quality. Comfortable across the stack, Jerod focuses on practical tooling—writing JavaScript to normalize and test complex text transformations for real-world content. He brings uncommon experience translating technical work into clear, consumable outputs, whether for students, readers, or developers. Outside core engineering he’s an active listener and participant in developer podcasts, a hint at how he stays plugged into the community and emerging ideas.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Stackoverflow
9,906reputation
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Github Skills (16)
regular-expression10
javascript10
jestjs10
jtest10
jes10
markdown-it9
markdown9
git6
dtrace6
alias6
wget6
focus6
environment-variables6
debian6
ruby6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
thechangelog/transcripts
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Changelog episode transcripts in Markdown format 📚
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 992 commits, 736 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jerod primarily focused on improving the formatting and consistency of the transcript files. Their contributions involved writing JavaScript code to apply various text replacements, including timestamp and code formatting, and standardizing terms. They also added tests to ensure these formatting rules worked correctly and extended the functionality to cover email and GitHub/GitLab links and other edge cases. The changes focused on improving the readability and presentation of the podcast transcripts.
changelogtranscriptsmarkdown-formatepisodemarkdown
jerodsanto/CappuccinoResource
Dec 2009 - Sep 2010
Contributions:33 commits in 9 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby
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