Jules Omlor
Software Engineer
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJules Omlor is a seasoned software engineer based in Asheville, NC, with over 20 years in web development and more than a decade of remote experience, specializing in resilient, maintainable applications built with Elixir, Phoenix, TypeScript, and React. He brings deep backend expertise in Elixir/Ecto/Absinthe and practical front-end skill with React and ClojureScript, plus a history in Ruby on Rails evidenced by full-stack contributions like implementing secure authentication in a Rails/Backbone Kanban clone. Comfortable across databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL) and search technologies (Elasticsearch, Solr, CloudSearch), Jules also operates confidently in infrastructure via Docker, NixOS, Ansible, and AWS. He pairs functional programming interests and systems-level curiosity—illustrated by Rust and Bevy game work on his GitHub—with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable products. Trained at App Academy with earlier roots in computer animation, he blends creative sensibility with engineering rigor to solve UX- and performance-sensitive problems. Colleagues rely on him for building flexible architectures that remain maintainable as teams and requirements evolve.
13 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, Computer Animation, Associate's degree, Computer Animation at Art Institute of PhiladelphiaFull-stack Ruby on Rails, JavaScript Web Development, Full-stack Ruby on Rails, JavaScript Web Development at App Academy
Github Skills (9)
authentication10
user-authentication10
rails10
bcrypt10
ruby-on-rails10
backbonejs9
backbone9
activerecord9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
hauntedhost/kanban
Jun 2013 - Oct 2015
Kanban 看板 is a Trello clone in Rails and Backbone.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:119 commits, 16 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jules primarily focused on implementing and improving user authentication and authorization features within the Kanban application. They added user login and logout functionality, including password handling using BCrypt and session management. The user made changes to the sessions controller, application controller, and route configurations to incorporate the new user login handling.
backbonebackbonejsrailstrello
hauntedhost/programming-language-foundations-in-agda
Oct 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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