Steve St Martin is a Tampa-based Head of Engineering with 16 years of professional experience and over two decades of full‑stack expertise, who has progressed through hands-on engineering to senior leadership roles at Shogun and prior CTO and director positions. He combines deep frontend chops—evidenced by notable contributions to the widely used rails/jquery-ujs project improving remote interactions and UX—with product-minded technical leadership that scales teams and systems. Comfortable shifting between coding and strategy, he has repeatedly moved up the engineering ladder within the same company, signaling strong delivery and organizational impact. Known for simplifying complex client-side behavior (like button-disabling and remote form serialization), he brings pragmatic engineering trade-offs and operational rigor to fast-paced SaaS environments.
Ruby on Rails unobtrusive scripting adapter for jQuery
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Front-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user interaction of the jQuery-ujs library. They rewrote and refactored remote link handling, introduced confirmation handlers, and implemented features to handle form data serialization for remote calls. A significant portion of their work involved adding the ability to disable buttons during remote calls, and simplifying the implementation. Their changes provided a more streamlined and responsive user experience.
Base62 encoding and decoding to turn numbers into very compact strings
Contributions:1 review, 3 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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