Jonathan Julian
Director Of Engineering at Arches
Arnold, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Julian is a seasoned engineering leader with 25+ years of hands-on software experience and a 17-year track record in senior delivery and people management roles, currently serving as Director of Engineering. He has led large multi-team programs across government agencies—VA, HHS, SSA, Department of Education—combining systems design, mobile and web development, APIs, and automation to deliver high-quality products (including an iOS app with a sustained 4.8 rating). Known for mentoring engineers into leadership while still diving into code, he designs test automation pipelines, builds Ruby on Rails and Node.js services, and champions infrastructure and microservices at scale. A lifelong tinkerer, he applies engineering to real-world problems and enjoys building developer tools and plugins (notably for TRMNL). Based in Arnold, Maryland, he pairs strategic roadmap thinking with pragmatic delivery and a history of hiring, coaching, and shaping technical organizations.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
12,203reputation
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220answers
4questions
ruby
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json
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testing
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activerecord
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regex
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overriding
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Github Skills (106)
overriding10
ruby-on-rails10
background-service10
job-queue10
queue10
extjs10
json10
resque10
ad-hoc10
job-scheduler9
api9
testing9
ruby9
background-worker9
activerecord9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
adhocteam/cms-jira-tickler
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
JasonCanCode/CRUDE-Futures
Aug 2016 - May 2025
Create, Read, Update, Delete, and Enumerate entities from a remote server
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 8 years 10 months
remote-serverupdateenumerate
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