Jonathon Frisby
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJonathon Frisby is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 16 years of experience building and scaling backend-first engineering teams and products, now serving as CTO/VP Engineering in Vancouver, WA. He has repeatedly taken startups from zero to production—co-founding companies, leading engineering during acquisitions, and shaping security-conscious, high-throughput systems that processed multi-terabyte data and hundreds of millions in cloud spend. Hands-on across Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, and cloud infrastructure, he combines player/coach leadership with deep DevOps and security expertise, often paying down technical debt while shipping features. His open-source contributions include improving Rails model annotation tooling and hardening test suites for bundler-audit, reflecting an attention to practical developer ergonomics and resilient testing. Not obvious from titles: he routinely accelerates business outcomes by cutting ETL and test times by orders of magnitude, turning slow analytics and onboarding into competitive advantages.
16 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
rspec10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
test-automation10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
security9
activerecord9
audit8
auditing8
simplecov7
debugging6
edit-and-continue6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
ctran/annotate_models
Feb 2012 - Aug 2012
Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonathon primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a Ruby on Rails application designed to annotate Rails classes with schema and routes information. Their contributions included the addition of features to find models with different capitalization, inside modules, and inside subdirectories. They also introduced monkey patches to handle unknown macros and improved the ability of the application to work correctly when updating model information.
railsrubyactiverecord
rubysec/bundler-audit
Sep 2013 - Jun 2014
Patch-level verification for Bundler
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathon's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the testing infrastructure for the `bundler-audit` project. This involves writing and modifying tests, including those for the database class and integration tests. The user made changes to make the tests more resilient to updates in the vulnerability data. They also added coverage statistics using SimpleCov and address a failure mode related to data structure mismatches.
bundlerbundler-auditruby-advisory-dbrubydependency-checker
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