Jose Antillon is a seasoned Software Engineer based in Mexicali with 14 years of professional experience and a decade-plus focus on building and scaling Ruby on Rails applications. He has held senior and principal roles across healthcare, clinical research, and SaaS teams, delivering backend and GraphQL features and modernizing legacy Rails systems. A pragmatic full-stack practitioner, Jose pairs API and backend refactors with front-end integrations (Angular, jQuery dataTables) — notably improving and modernizing an ajax-datatables-rails wrapper to support multi-column sorting and multi-term search. Currently contributing to Karat’s interview platform at Unosquare, he brings a track record of migrating monoliths, implementing robust server-side pagination, and shipping incremental platform improvements. His background in business administration and Linux complements his engineering instincts, giving him a practical, systems-oriented perspective on product and operations.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Linux, Diploma Linux at CETYS Universidad
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at Universidad Autonoma de
A wrapper around DataTable's ajax methods that allow synchronization with server-side pagination in a Rails app
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 71 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing the project structure, introducing namespaces and base classes. They modified the project's core functionality to be compatible with jQuery dataTables version 1.10, updating the API and syntax. Furthermore, the user implemented multi-column sorting and multi-term search features, and refactored and improved how columns are being handled. These changes centered around the core functionality of the datatables wrapper.
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