Spencer Neste
Staff Software Engineer at Toro TMS
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Neste is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend-first web applications and APIs, skilled in C/C++, Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/React, and SQL. He has deep interests in cryptography and discrete mathematics, bringing rigorous problem-solving to system design and serialization challenges. A longtime contributor to the Ruby ecosystem (notably enhancing view support in the popular blueprinter serialization library), he blends open-source craftsmanship with production engineering at companies like Procore and Toro TMS. Spencer pairs hands-on coding with leadership experience—rising from software engineer to engineering manager and staff roles—while balancing technical work with a competitive collegiate track background, which informs his team-oriented, performance-driven approach.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at UCSBHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mira Costa High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
serializer9
json7
testing5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
procore-oss/blueprinter
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Spencer contributed to the `blueprinter` Ruby library by adding and modifying view support features within the base class. Their work included implementing the `has_view?` method and refining how views are handled in the `Blueprinter::Base` class. They also addressed suggestions from code reviews and bumped the library's version. The user also made updates to the specification files.
railspresenterresource-serializerdeclarativeserialization
spencerneste/rails
Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
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