Jimmy Mcdermott is a founder and CEO with 11 years of engineering and startup leadership experience, currently building Rubie to help companies activate customers faster. He previously founded and led PathwayOS from product launch to acquisition by Vector Solutions and ran a fast-moving boutique agency that built mobile and web products for diverse industries. A hands-on backend engineer, Jimmy contributed to the Vapor Fluent ORM—adding query history and modernizing the API—reflecting deep experience in server-side Swift and production databases. He’s been active in the Swift on the Server community and spent time at South Park Commons refining a new B2B idea, blending operator-level execution with product intuition. Based in New York, he pairs technical craftsmanship with a founder’s instinct for building fast, acquisitive companies.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Boston College
Vapor ORM (queries, models, and relations) for NoSQL and SQL databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to the Fluent ORM, focusing on query history implementation. Their work included adding functionality to track and manage database queries, including starting, stopping, and clearing the query history. They also upgraded Fluent to use the latest version of FluentKit and updated the API to reflect the changes in the underlying library. Additionally, the user removed filters in one commit, suggesting an understanding of query building.
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 8 commits in 11 months
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