Ryan Jones
VP, Software Engineering at Jobber
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolRyan Jones is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience who currently serves as VP of Software Engineering at Jobber, guiding technology vision and scaling product engineering for high-growth SaaS. He began his career writing COBOL on mainframes and has since led cloud migrations, microservices adoption, and agile/DevOps transformations across enterprises and membership organizations. Known for growing and mentoring high-performing teams, he combines hands-on engineering chops with strategic stewardship—recently shepherding Jobber’s architecture and shedding legacy systems. An active open-source contributor in the Ruby/OAuth and error-tracking ecosystems, he improved test coverage and notification integrations for widely used projects like Doorkeeper and Errbit. Based in Edmonton, Ryan pairs pragmatic delivery metrics with strong communication and empathy to align engineering outcomes to business goals.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Computer Network Administration, Certificate, Computer Network Administration at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (27)
error-reporting10
testing10
rspec10
facebook-graph-api10
ruby10
error-log10
doorkeeper10
oauth10
bugtracking10
mysql9
localhost9
ssl9
rails9
mongoid9
ruby-on-rails9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
errbit/errbit
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the implementation of a notification service for the errbit error-tracking application. Their work focused on integrating a Campfire notification service, including the creation of a Campfire notification model and associated tests. The user also modified the application to send notifications to the configured notification service and made related adjustments to the app's controller and observer classes to support the new features. Furthermore, the user refactored and updated tests related to the Campfire notification service.
apicatchererror-monitoringcompliantairbrake
doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on improving the test coverage and functionality related to wildcard redirect URIs within the Doorkeeper OAuth2 provider. Their contributions include adding new tests to cover various scenarios related to query parameters and domain matching. They also modified the configuration files to enable and test the `wildcard_redirect_uri` option, ensuring it functions correctly. Additionally, they updated the tests to align with RSpec 3 syntax, enhancing the maintainability of the test suite.
omniauthoauth2-serveridentitydoorkeeperruby
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