Jon Sangster
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJon 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
Github Skills (37)
xcb9
gtfs9
xorg9
zenhub8
x118
rest8
linux8
css8
animation8
restful7
audio-applications5
code-editor5
adapter5
svg5
audio5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
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
gtfsrestrestful
sangster/gen_resume
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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