Ray Zane
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Betterment
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRay Zane is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Philadelphia with 12 years of experience building reliable web and backend systems, now driving technical direction at Betterment. He blends full‑stack Rails expertise with deep backend work—contributing to widely used Ruby projects like webmock and ActiveRecord JDBC adapter—where he has improved database adapters, request stubbing, and form builders through bug fixes, features, and tests. Ray's background spans startups and enterprise tooling, from systems engineering and DB administration to senior staff engineering, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for operational robustness and legacy browser compatibility. He’s notable for shipping practical enhancements—such as URL image uploads and Arel fixes—that quietly reduce production friction and make libraries easier for other developers to adopt.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Management Information Systems at West Virginia University
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Github Skills (32)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
jdbc10
network-programming10
java10
ruby10
javas10
firebird10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
api-design9
bootstrap9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
bblimke/webmock
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 20 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ray primarily focused on enhancing the `webmock` library, a tool for stubbing HTTP requests in Ruby. They implemented new functionalities and refactored existing code to allow for more flexible configuration related to connecting to servers on start and filtering connections. Furthermore, the user improved the library by fixing bugs and adding new tests to cover new functionalities such as support for various socket methods and persistent connections. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the library's internal workings and its interaction with network connections.
http-requestssettingstubbingexpectationsruby
jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
JRuby's ActiveRecord adapter using JDBC.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ray primarily contributed to the ActiveRecord JDBC adapter, focusing on Firebird database support. Their work involved fixing bugs related to argument handling in the Arel visitor, and preventing insert failures in not-null columns. The user also implemented limit and offset functionality, as well as setting the configuration for LOB values, adding appropriate tests.
railsrubyadapteractiverecord-adapterjruby
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