Ruby Zhuang
Software Developer at TELUS Santé | TELUS Health
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRuby Zhuang is a software developer with 13 years of technical experience who blends a strong engineering foundation (Chemical Engineering, U of T, 3.86 GPA) with hands-on full-stack web development. She co-founded and led education at Lighthouse Labs, then transitioned to production-focused roles, currently building software at TELUS Health. Ruby contributes to open-source learning projects—enhancing ActiveRecord exercises and improving a Rails e-commerce app—demonstrating attention to both backend data interactions and front-end UX details like cart behavior and styling. Her background includes solar engineering and manufacturing tech co-op work, reflecting a practical, systems-oriented problem-solving approach. Passionate about lifelong learning and teaching, she brings an educator’s mindset to developer tooling and developer experience. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic builder who enjoys turning educational concepts into production-ready code.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, 3.86 GPA, Engineer’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, 3.86 GPA at University of TorontoDiploma, Full Stack Development, Diploma, Full Stack Development at Lighthouse Labs
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (11)
html10
activerecord10
css10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
ecommerce9
postgresql9
database-design7
javascript7
rest-api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lighthouse-labs/ar-exercises
Jan 2014 - Nov 2019
ActiveRecord stretch exercises
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ruby primarily contributed to the backend logic of the ActiveRecord exercises. They implemented new exercises and modified the `run.rb` file to support the addition of these exercises. Additionally, the user updated the setup file to include database connection details and incorporated logging. The changes focused on modifying the application's exercise structure and database interactions.
ruby-on-railsadobe-experience-managerrailsrubysling
lighthouse-labs/jungle-rails
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
An e-commerce Rails app built for learning Rails through example
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 80 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ruby primarily focused on improving the e-commerce application's front-end and back-end functionality. They implemented changes to the shopping cart, including the addition of buttons and cart arithmetic. Further adjustments were made to the CSS styling, specifically for buttons. Additionally, the user merged branches and fixed a bug in the cart views.
ruby-on-railsrails-appecommercecommercerails
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