Jon Sangster
Senior Ruby Engineer at Sign In Enterprise (formerly Traction Guest)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJon Sangster is a Senior Ruby Engineer with 14 years of professional experience building web and backend systems across startups and enterprise clients. He blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise with strong backgrounds in Java, C, and functional languages like Haskell, and enjoys mentoring teams in agile environments. Jon has delivered complex domain-specific systems—from conference registration and ontology servers to embedded Shopify integrations—that solved scaling, automation, and product-delivery challenges for clients such as Autodesk, NVIDIA, Riot Games and HP. Now based in Vancouver after relocating from Halifax, he seeks opportunities to lead small agile teams while continuing hands-on development. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs legacy modernization experience with a taste for elegant language design and tool-driven automation.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at St. Francis Xavier University
Stackoverflow
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700reached
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Github Skills (63)
zenhub9
reader9
feed9
gtfs9
xorg9
ace-editor8
x118
linux8
css8
xcb8
ruby7
rails7
browser7
restful7
database7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sangster/gen_resume
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
sangster/gtfs_engine
Mar 2014 - May 2020
An engine to drive a RESTful interface for GTFS data
Contributions:1 review, 153 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 3 months
restfulgtfscockpitdatabaseurlshortener
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