Jesse Ruder
Software Engineer at Castle
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Jesse Ruder is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack and mobile tooling, currently based in Honolulu and working at Castle. A Stanford CS graduate, he spent nearly eight years at Expo contributing to the widely-used Expo platform—improving the Expo Development Environment, Android shell app, simulator integrations, and crash fixes. He blends front-end UI improvements and back-end packager/manifest work, and has hands-on experience integrating native modules and CLI tooling. Jesse is comfortable shipping across the stack from JavaScript and build scripts to Android native code, with a track record of pragmatic bug fixes that improve developer workflows. Colleagues would note his knack for finding stability issues in complex mobile ecosystems and adding small features that materially improve usability. He brings startup agility and open-source discipline to production engineering roles.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
mobile-development10
expo10
android-development10
android10
native-android10
react10
react-native9
ios9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
mobile9
nodejs9
uid9
build-automation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
expo/xde
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
The Expo Development Environment
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 releases, 201 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the Expo Development Environment (XDE), focusing on improvements to the packager, manifest handling, and the UI. They implemented features like serving manifests at index.exp, adding a share button, and integrating diagnostics tools. The commits also show work related to the iOS and Android simulator integration, and improvements to the command-line interface.
react-nativedevelopment-environment
expo/expo
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:758 commits, 11 PRs, 311 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily worked on the Android side of the Expo SDK, as evidenced by their contributions to the android-shell-app and their efforts to address bugs. Their commits involved modifying JavaScript code and updating build scripts, as well as integrating native modules and handling notifications. Furthermore, they were responsible for handling and fixing crashes.
ios-androidiosmobileweexframework7
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