Jon Roberts
Lead Software Engineer at SXSW
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJon Roberts is a Lead Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-traffic web applications, APIs, and data pipelines, currently driving engineering at SXSW. He brings deep Ruby/Rails expertise from long-term work on mission-critical event systems (schedule, SSO, ticketing, badge sales, hotel booking) and has practical experience migrating platforms to AWS and hardening authentication with SAML. Jon pairs hands-on engineering with developer experience improvements—streamlining onboarding and introducing secure document storage patterns—while exploring functional languages like Elm and Haskell. A former independent contractor and UI designer, he combines product-minded front-end sensibilities with backend reliability, and he’s comfortable operating across the full stack under heavy load.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Computer Art, BFA, Computer Art at Savannah College of Art and Design
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Github Skills (200)
firmware10
vim10
nvim10
schema10
space-partitioning10
api10
html10
openbox10
nixpkgs10
activemodel10
ctags10
oauth10
nix10
code-completion10
ruby10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
emptyflask/closure_tree
Dec 2017 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 years
railshierarchiesrubyactiverecord-modelsactiverecord
emptyflask/rails-nix
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Example Rails 6 app using nix for dependencies
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 11 months
nixrails
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