Rob Widmer
Principal Architect at Widmer Brothers Rentals, LLC
Sterling, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRob Widmer is a Principal Architect with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and migrating large-scale web platforms, currently leading the re-architecture of a ColdFusion stack to Ruby on Rails at PatientIQ. He has driven multi-tenant, cloud-native transformations—moving thousands of sites into Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines—while championing tooling consolidation and cost savings. A full-stack tinkerer, Rob is comfortable from HTML/CSS/JS to database schema design (MSSQL, Postgres, MongoDB) and digs into open source code to understand how things work beneath the hood. His contributions to the JRuby ActiveRecord JDBC adapter demonstrate a willingness to tackle subtle DB compatibility issues and improve maintainability. Beyond code, he relentlessly pursues process and automation improvements that speed delivery and reduce risk, and even manages rental properties on the side, reflecting practical operational instincts.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineering, Bachelor Electrical Engineering at Ohio University
English
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Github Skills (14)
activerecord10
postgresql10
jdbc10
java9
testing9
javascript9
javas9
json6
html6
jquery-ui6
css6
jquery6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter
Jun 2017 - Dec 2020
JRuby's ActiveRecord adapter using JDBC.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:168 commits, 47 PRs, 92 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily worked on the ActiveRecord JDBC adapter for PostgreSQL, addressing issues related to data types, prepared statements, and database schema interaction. Their contributions involved fixing tests for various PostgreSQL data types like JSON, arrays, and bit strings, ensuring accurate handling and representation within the adapter. Furthermore, they updated the adapter to leverage more of ActiveRecord's built-in PostgreSQL logic and included bug fixes. A significant portion of the work involved refactoring and adapting the adapter's codebase for improved compatibility and maintainability.
activerecordjdbcjrubyactiverecord-jdbc-adapterrails
realtimeMD/omniauth-smart
Apr 2022 - Dec 2024
Omniauth strategy supporting the SMART protocol
Contributions:9 reviews, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 8 months
omniauth
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