Jesse Lasalle is a Lead Software Engineer based in Columbus, Ohio, specializing in Ruby on Rails with eight years of professional experience and a focused interest in cybersecurity. He has repeatedly served as the sole engineer building and unifying Rails applications—from launching a Rails 7 + React system for roofing business operations to consolidating a dozen legacy apps and delivering a Rails-based cyber security product at The Walt Disney Company. Comfortable across the full stack and databases (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle), Jesse blends hands-on backend work, API design, and frontend polish, and he brings practical security expertise from roles as an application security engineer and access manager. He contributes to mission-driven open source like rubyforgood/casa, improving backend test coverage and JSON APIs for a nonprofit case management system. Known for collaborating directly with clients and shipping pragmatic solutions in both agile and waterfall settings, he’s currently seeking Ruby on Rails engineering roles where he can pair secure engineering practices with product-driven development.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Science, PSYCHOLOGY at The Ohio State University
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 review, 38 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the Ruby on Rails backend and related testing. They fixed bugs and added spec coverage to the user model. The user also implemented a new view for other duties and added corresponding controller actions, including a policy, indicating backend development. Furthermore, the user worked on front-end styling for the supervisors index page, and also worked on JSON API responses.
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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Jesse Lasalle - Lead Software Engineer at Evitt Estimating Group