Jon Ruskin
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarJon Ruskin is a pragmatic software developer with over 15 years of broad, hands-on experience across languages, paradigms, and frameworks, now based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He excels at back-end engineering and test automation, contributing to well-known open-source projects like licensee and GitHub's semantic where he improved license detection, parsing, and language-specific analysis. Comfortable in both Ruby and Haskell ecosystems, Jon combines careful dependency and build management with thorough testing practices to increase reliability and maintainability. He describes himself as a "jack of all trades, master of some," which shows a deliberate trade-off toward breadth with deep pockets of expertise. Curious and methodical, he treats software as a tool for answering questions and systematically solves problems from tooling to parser logic. Expect someone who both ships practical fixes and enjoys the small, non-obvious improvements—like better parent-directory license discovery and nuanced regex fixes—that save time for many downstream users.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
ruby10
regular-expression10
open-source10
python10
haskell10
test-automation10
testing10
rubygems9
text-parsing9
data-structure9
parsing9
licensing9
data-structures9
dependency-management9
build-system6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
licensee/licensed
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
A Ruby gem to cache and verify the licenses of dependencies
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:87 releases, 119 reviews, 1299 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions primarily involved writing and modifying test code for the `licensee/licensed` repository. The user created test source files, used a test helper to add functionality, and updated existing test command files to use the new testing resources. Their commits show an understanding of dependency management, as they implemented tests to check various scenarios related to license information and file existence, including cases for both expected results and error conditions. The user also implemented tests using and verifying a set of testing utility functions.
licenseslicensingdependenciesruby-gemruby
licensee/licensee
Jun 2017 - Feb 2022
A Ruby Gem to detect under what license a project is distributed.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jon contributed to the development of the `licensee/licensee` gem, primarily focused on improving the accuracy of license detection. Their work involved adding features like searching for licenses in parent directories and fixing regular expressions used for parsing license information from various file formats. The user also added support for matching Cabal files, enhancing the gem's ability to identify licenses in different project types. Furthermore, the user made changes to project file metadata, ensuring correct file loading and data storage.
licensingruby-gemlegallawrails
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