Jo Hund
CTO at ClearCove Software Inc.
Comox, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarJo Hund is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on engineer with 17 years of experience and a decade specialising in Ruby on Rails. As CTO at Animikii and co-founder/CTO of ContentGems while running his Rails consultancy ClearCove, he has repeatedly translated product ideas into polished, production-ready web applications. He owns the full Rails stack—from provisioning Ubuntu servers to crafting rich client UIs in React and ClojureScript—and still contributes to the ecosystem (notably authoring the Filterrific gem to simplify ActiveRecord filtering and sorting). Based in Comox, British Columbia, Jo blends entrepreneurial drive with deep technical craftsmanship, preferring pragmatic, well-tested solutions that scale. Colleagues rely on him to move projects from prototype to reliable operation while keeping the developer experience clean and maintainable.
18 years of coding experience
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
activerecord10
filtering10
rails10
filter10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
testing9
will-paginate6
sql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jhund/filterrific
Feb 2010 - Mar 2022
Filterrific is a Rails Engine plugin that makes it easy to filter, search, and sort your ActiveRecord lists.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 348 commits, 31 PRs in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jo's primary contribution appears to be the initial setup and development of the `filterrific` gem, a Rails Engine plugin. Their work focused on establishing the core structure, including test files and helper files. The user built the gem, and implemented the initial code setup for Rails2 behavior. Also, they updated the various gem infrastructure files, and updated the documentation.
activerecordrails-enginesfilterruby-on-rails
animikii/makwa
Sep 2021 - Mar 2026
Interactions for Ruby on Rails.
Contributions:5 reviews, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsruby
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