Shevaun Coker
Staff Engineer at Buildkite
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
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Top SchoolShevaun Coker is a Staff Engineer based in Hamilton, New Zealand with 13 years crafting Ruby on Rails applications and a First Class Honours degree in AI/software development from the University of Waikato. She excels at writing elegant, well-tested code and enjoys refactoring complex systems to improve clarity and robustness. At Buildkite she progressed from Senior to Staff Engineer, contributing both code and crisp technical documentation for APIs, SCIM/SSO and webhook integrations. Her open-source work includes modularizing and optimizing the popular awesome_nested_set library and improving transactional reliability and SQL query generation. Known for pairing succinct specs with pragmatic engineering, she brings a developer-community mindset to building durable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (BCMS), Artificial Intelligence / Software Development, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (BCMS), Artificial Intelligence / Software Development, First Class Honours at University of Waikato
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Github Skills (24)
markdown10
webhooks10
tree-structure10
ruby10
tree10
markdown-it10
sql10
activerecord10
data-tree10
rest-api10
documentation10
architecture9
scim9
architectures9
sso-authentication9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
collectiveidea/awesome_nested_set
Jun 2013 - Nov 2013
An awesome replacement for acts_as_nested_set and better_nested_set.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shevaun primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `awesome_nested_set` library. Their commits involved modularizing and refactoring complex logic, specifically concerning tree pruning, transaction handling, and SQL query optimization. They extracted logic into separate modules, utilized Arel for query building, and enhanced the library's robustness by adding retry mechanisms for transactions. Further contributions include rebuilding the tree structure.
acts-asnested-setreplacement
buildkite/docs
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 reviews, 19 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shevaun primarily contributed to the documentation of the Buildkite API and integrations. Their work included documenting new REST API endpoints for pipeline archiving and unarchiving, and providing detailed instructions for setting up SCIM and SSO integrations with Okta. They also updated the webhook documentation with example implementations and signature verification steps.
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