Sean Kirby
Chief Architect Founder at Nulogy
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Kirby is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 16 years of experience guiding architecture, scalability, and technology strategy while remaining hands-on as a coder. As Chief Architect and Founder at Nulogy, he shapes product architecture for a platform that coordinates complex supply-chain customization at scale and champions Agile delivery across teams. His background in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo underpins a pragmatic systems-thinking approach to distributed and operationally complex products. An active contributor to open-source ruby tooling, he notably improved timezone and datetime handling in the widely used mongoid project, reflecting attention to subtle correctness issues that matter in production. Based in Old Toronto, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep technical craftsmanship and a preference for rolling up his sleeves to ship resilient systems.
16 years of coding experience
Honours BASc Systems Design Engineering, Honours BASc Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
French
Github Skills (11)
activesupport10
datetime10
rails10
dates10
orm10
datetimes10
mongodb10
ruby-on-rails10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
rspec8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongoid
Sep 2010 - Sep 2010
The Official Ruby Object Mapper for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Sean made significant contributions to the `mongoid` Ruby object mapper for MongoDB, focusing on time zone handling and date/time conversions. Their work included modifying how dates and times are parsed from strings, dates, and datetimes to align with ActiveSupport time zones, ensuring consistent behavior with ActiveRecord. The user also addressed issues related to multi-parameter attribute assignment and removed unnecessary code. Further contributions involved the handling of ActiveSupport::TimeZone and supporting the time zone setting when processing Time objects.
ruby-on-railsruby-object-mapperrailsmongoidobject-mapper
nulogy/vorpal
Aug 2014 - May 2022
Separate your domain model from your persistence mechanism.
Contributions:23 releases, 3 reviews, 369 commits in 7 years 10 months
mechanismdomain-modelphpseparatedomain
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