Kevin Pheasey is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 13 years of experience building web and mobile applications, from CMS-driven sites to e-commerce and custom web apps. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP, Ruby on Rails, SQL, JavaScript, and front-end technologies with product-minded leadership gained running his own consultancy and leading development teams. Kevin has contributed core improvements to a high-performance Ruby JSON:API serializer—adding polymorphic relationship support and optimizations—illustrating his backend performance focus. His background includes API integrations (Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter) and frequent work across full-stack stacks, making him comfortable bridging legacy systems and modern stacks. Based in Danbury, CT, he pairs an MS in Software Engineering with practical client-facing experience to deliver pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical direction and for turning complex requirements into efficient, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Software Engineering, MS, Software Engineering at University of Scranton
A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby (fork of Netflix/fast_jsonapi)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 20 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the core logic of the jsonapi-serializer, a Ruby library. Their work involved modifying core serialization and relationship handling functions. These contributions included adding features like polymorphic relationship support, fixing bugs, and improving the efficiency of the serialization process by optimizing caching. The user also updated the version and removed deprecated code.
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years
jsonapicontrollerinspectionrailsrails-engine
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