Jim Gay
Director Of Engineering at Saturn Flyer LLC
Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarJim Gay is a Director of Engineering and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience shaping Ruby-driven web applications and user-facing design. He authored Clean Ruby and the Ruby DSL Handbook, leads Radiant CMS development, and founded Arlington Ruby while co-organizing DC Ruby Users Group—demonstrating deep open-source leadership in the Ruby community. Combining a rare mix of application architecture, front-end UI/UX, and accessibility/SEO expertise, he runs Saturn Flyer LLC and currently guides engineering at SOFware LLC. His background in award-winning graphic design informs a pragmatic, design-forward approach to building maintainable code and elegant interfaces.
17 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (200)
cms10
radiant10
hierarchy10
ruby10
e-mail10
html-text10
null-object-pattern10
superclass10
preserve10
content-management-system10
message-board10
rails10
bourbon10
sass-functions10
php10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
avdi/quarto
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 year 5 months
SOFware/sof-cycle
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
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Contributions:19 reviews, 20 PRs, 33 pushes in 8 months
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