Johnathan Lyman
Software Developer, Ruby On Rails (LMTS) at Heroku
Auburn, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohnathan Lyman is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building and leading Ruby on Rails engineering at Heroku. He blends hands-on development with platform and operational expertise—streamlining data workflows from 12 hours to one minute and spearheading edge caching and application firewalls that cut pages by 80% and blocked over 100 million malicious requests annually. Johnathan has led multi-continent teams, standardized Rails tooling to halve onboarding time, and delivered 15+ software and infrastructure projects in 2024 alone. His background spans customer-facing technical roles and operations at Microsoft, Google, and startups, giving him a rare mix of product empathy, incident communications skills, and automation-first thinking. Based in Auburn, WA, he also founded a small-business resource site, demonstrating an entrepreneurial bent beyond core engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (200)
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daemons10
javascript10
esbuild10
papertrail10
npm-cli10
ghost10
jamstack10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
johlym/leahillwx
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:304 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
johlym/johnathan-org
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
The repo for johnathan.org
Contributions:30 releases, 78 PRs, 222 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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