Jordan Byron
Principal Software Engineer at Ontra
Cheshire, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Byron is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building and scaling web platforms and 14 years in professional engineering roles, currently leading architecture and delivery at Ontra. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with technical leadership, having advanced from senior and staff roles at BetterUp to managing web technologies and engineering teams at SeeClickFix. An active open-source contributor in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, he’s improved server-side rendering and asset workflows for react-rails and extended a popular FedEx Ruby library with tracking, reporting, and optional PDF generation. Based in Cheshire, Connecticut, he brings practical, product-focused solutions to complex backend and QA challenges while mentoring teams to ship reliably. Outside of work he’s motivated by doing good with code, and off-hours he’s a committed mountain biker and girl dad—traits that reflect resilience and a collaborative, grounded leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Southern Connecticut State UniversityMusic & Sound Recording, Music & Sound Recording at University of New Haven
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
apidoc10
testing10
react9
sprockets9
xml9
rspec8
jsx7
webpack6
yaml6
webpacker6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jazminschroeder/fedex
May 2012 - Jan 2013
Ruby library to interact with FedEx Rate Web Service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the `fedex` Ruby library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and improving its usability. Their work included making label PDF generation optional, adding package dimensions as optional parameters, and refining customer reference handling. Furthermore, the user added a tracking API and reporting functionality, adding several features to the library.
mlsrubyinteractweb-serviceruby-library
reactjs/react-rails
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker.
Role in this project:Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the testing and server-side rendering aspects of the React on Rails integration. They implemented YAML manifest support for asset retrieval in Rails 3.2 and wrote tests to validate its functionality, including ensuring assets compile correctly. Additionally, they addressed an issue related to asset compilation in development environments.
rails-viewsreactwebpackercontrollerspipeline
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