Mitchel Lindsay
Principal Software Engineer at BluePath Health
Roseville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchel Lindsay is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and scaling full-stack web applications, currently leading architecture and delivery at BluePath Health. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and modern front-end frameworks like Angular, complemented by hands-on work across authentication, testing, and session management (including contributions to a Devise SAML strategy addressing IDP-initiated logout flows). A proven technical leader, Mitchel has driven platform integrations, mentored engineering teams, instituted knowledge-sharing programs, and bridged client-facing and backend development at companies such as One Medical and Digital Foundry. He pairs strong project management and problem-solving skills with a pragmatic focus on security and testability, often flipping between languages and stacks to unblock teams. Based in Roseville, CA, he combines a B.S. in Computer Science with hobbies like woodworking that reflect a restless curiosity and attention to craft. Notably, his open-source testing and SAML work improved session robustness in real-world Rails auth deployments.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science with Minor in Mathmatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science with Minor in Mathmatics at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (10)
rspec10
ss10
user-authentication10
devise10
authentication10
single-sign-on10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
saml10
ruby10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apokalipto/devise_saml_authenticatable
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Devise SAML 2.0 authentication strategy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Mitchel primarily focused on setting up and configuring the testing environment for a Ruby on Rails application utilizing Devise and SAML for authentication. They implemented and refined controller specs, and feature tests, along with a custom SAML implementation to handle IDP-initiated logout flows. The user made several adjustments to the authentication strategy, addressing issues and improving session management to ensure a more secure and robust implementation.
idpauthenticationsaml2strategyidentity-provider
mitch-lindsay/ruby-hl7
Jul 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
ruby-gemgemrubyhl7
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