Scott Olsen
Manager Of Web Development at Merchants Bonding Company
Madrid, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolScott Olsen is a pragmatic web development manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that ship customer-focused features using Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and PostgreSQL. He currently runs web development at Merchants Bonding Company and previously held senior engineering roles at Doximity, combining hands-on coding with mentorship and project leadership. He favors Shape Up-style cycles and TDD/BDD, pairing practical process discipline with frequent pair programming to keep quality high and delivery predictable. An active open-source contributor, he has improved maintainability and test coverage on rubyforgood/casa, a volunteer management system used by nonprofits. Outside work he prototypes apps for his cycling team and built a community app featured in VeloNews, showing a knack for turning personal passions into useful software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems at Des Moines Area Community College
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Github Skills (11)
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
testing9
casa8
open-source7
jquery5
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 64 commits, 29 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the `rubyforgood/casa` project, a volunteer management system. Their contributions included removing deprecation warnings, cleaning up test files, refactoring code to improve efficiency by using existing objects in factories, and adding new specs for pending tests. They also addressed specific bugs and implemented new features like filtering functionality, showing and hiding columns.
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scottolsen/basis_theory
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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