Moncef Belyamani is a seasoned software leader and founder with over two decades of web development experience and 13 years focused on Ruby and Rails. As Chief Automation Officer at Ruby on Mac, he helps teams save $100K+ annually by automating developer workflows, speeding onboarding, and maintaining reliable Ruby environments so engineers can be productive in under 30 minutes. He has a strong public footprint—helping 100K+ people set up Ruby on macOS since 2012—and contributes to notable open-source projects like the Ohana API and Devise two-factor authentication extensions. His background spans government-facing identity work at login.gov and broad backend engineering at Truss and 18F, combining pragmatic systems design with a passion for developer experience. Trained in electrical engineering and music at UVA, he brings both technical rigor and creative problem-solving to automation and tooling.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Double Major: B.S.E.E. and Music Electrical Engineering Music, Double Major: B.S.E.E. and Music Electrical Engineering Music at University of Virginia
The open source API directory of community social services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 1336 commits, 335 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Moncef implemented core backend features, including database schema design, API endpoints for organizations and locations, and service management for the Ohana API, a project aimed at providing an open-source directory of community social services. They worked extensively with database migrations and data modeling using ActiveRecord and Postgres. The changes show a focus on building and extending the API functionality, including adding pagination, authentication, and support for user-defined configurations via CSV imports.
Contributions:19 commits, 24 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Moncef primarily focused on enhancing the two-factor authentication functionality within the Devise gem. Their contributions included adding features to execute code before and after sign-in/sign-out operations, enabling OTP secret key encryption for increased security, and resolving related specification issues. They also addressed class detection issues in the reset_otp_state_for(user) method and dropped support for Rails 3.2 to facilitate future framework compatibility.
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