Weston Ganger
Software Architect at Braintree / Paypal
City of Langley, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolWeston Ganger is a Software Architect and founder of Solid Foundation Web Development with 11 years of experience building mobile, web, and desktop apps using web technologies. He’s an expert in Ruby on Rails and a prolific open-source contributor, improving well-known projects like the PaperTrail gem and Prism.js syntax highlighting, and contributing backend fixes to the Amber Crystal framework. Comfortable across the stack, he combines AngularJS/Ionic front-ends with robust database and backend work, and has delivered enterprise-grade solutions for clients including BC Hydro. A full-time Vim user and Linux enthusiast, he brings a pragmatic, keyboard-driven approach to development and tooling. His work shows attention to long-term maintainability—adding configurability, improving error handling, and refactoring core libraries to be more robust and readable. Based in Langley, BC, he pairs hands-on coding with product-minded architecture for small teams and client engagements.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems at University of the Fraser Valley
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Github Skills (63)
xlsx10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
crystal-lang10
back-end-development10
cordova10
rubygems10
testing10
plugin-development10
css10
spreadsheet10
rspec10
audit10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
westonganger/spreadsheet_architect
Feb 2016 - Dec 2022
Spreadsheet Architect is a library that allows you to create XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheets super easily from ActiveRecord relations, plain Ruby objects, or tabular data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 8 reviews, 230 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Weston focused on improving the core functionality of the spreadsheet architect library. Their commits primarily involved refactoring and enhancing the library's rendering capabilities, specifically for XLSX, ODS, and CSV formats. They also worked on addressing bugs related to column styles and default settings, as well as adjusting the date/time format, demonstrating a focus on core library features and ensuring proper spreadsheet generation.
xlsxcsvrelationstabularexport
cordova-plugin-camera-preview/cordova-plugin-camera-preview
Apr 2016 - Aug 2022
Cordova plugin that allows camera interaction from HTML code
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:10 releases, 206 commits, 118 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Weston primarily contributed to the Android implementation of the Cordova camera preview plugin. Their commits demonstrate work on the `CameraActivity`, and `Preview` classes, indicating a focus on camera interaction from HTML code. The user's work involved fixing merge bugs, refactoring code and correcting the quality settings for the iOS implementation. The commits also include updates to the Javascript API.
objective-cinteractioncordovacamerajavascript
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