Justin Coyne
Senior Developer at Stanford University
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Coyne is a Senior Developer with 14 years of professional experience building robust, object-oriented web and back-office applications, currently contributing to Stanford University's software initiatives from Minneapolis. He specializes in Java and Ruby on Rails, with deep experience in application design, UI, and database work and a track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code. Justin is an active open-source contributor to well-known Ruby projects such as Blacklight and rsolr, where he’s focused on refactoring, release maintenance, and improving Solr integrations. Colleagues rely on him for both big-picture architecture and meticulous code-level improvements—he routinely extracts and reorganizes core functionality to make systems easier to extend. A skilled communicator and problem solver, he’s equally comfortable working directly with clients to define requirements or leading teams to deliver complex solutions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Software Engineering, Masters of Science, Software Engineering at University of Minnesota
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Github Skills (14)
version-control10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
solr10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
api-design9
testing9
rspec9
git8
html8
database-migrations7
database-migration7
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
mailboxer/mailboxer
Jul 2013 - Dec 2018
A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 126 commits, 47 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `mailboxer/mailboxer` Rails gem, a system for sending messages within web applications. Their contributions included refactoring code to align with Rails 4 and 5 standards, updating dependencies, and bumping the gem's version. Additionally, the user addressed database precision issues when comparing time values and improved the codebase by removing deprecated configurations and refactoring receipts to avoid SQLite3 exceptions.
rails-gem
projectblacklight/blacklight
Jul 2011 - Jan 2023
Blacklight provides a discovery interface for any Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr) index.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 509 reviews, 1541 commits in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily worked on refactoring the core functionality of the application by extracting methods from existing helper files. They also created a new helper for HTML head content. These changes improve the organization and maintainability of the codebase, making it easier to add and maintain header content. They also were responsible for removing the Unapi functionality from the application and fixing and fixing broken URL links.
solrrubydiscovery-interfacerails-engineblacklight
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