Jonathan Pares
Self Employed
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJonathan Pares is a Senior Ruby on Rails developer and consultant with 12 years of experience building backend APIs, scalable e‑commerce and enterprise systems, and complex authentication and payment integrations for startups and SMEs. Based in Paris, he combines hands‑on engineering (Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, Trailblazer) with DevOps and agile practices—TDD/BDD, CI/CD and distributed team tooling—to reliably ship production systems. His freelance work spans payment-heavy platforms (MangoPay, Payoneer, PayPal, HiPay), mobile payment integrations and ERPs for niche industries, while past roles include leading API backends for consumer apps and high‑availability telecom backends. He contributes to open-source Rails tooling—having extended rspec_api_documentation with a textile writer—and mentors teams on testing and workflow modernization. Colleagues praise his focus on pragmatic, testable solutions and his knack for translating complex third‑party integrations into maintainable services.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Polytech'Nantes
Chinese, German, English, French
Github Skills (5)
textile10
rspec10
api10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zipmark/rspec_api_documentation
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the implementation of a textile writer and associated views within the RSpec API documentation project. This involved adding new files for the writer, examples and index, modifying existing files to include and use the textile writer, and creating and testing the textile writer functionality. The commits demonstrate a focus on expanding the documentation generation capabilities of the project. The user also updated related test cases in `api_documentation_spec.rb`.
rspecapiruby
jonathanpa/paypal-mass-payout-rails
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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