Jason Schweier

Software Developer

Software Developer with 3 years experience working on full-stack MVC web frameworks, including Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET MVC.

Eager to join a great organization that prefers teamwork, strives for technical excellence, and embraces experimentation and learning.

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Open Source Contributions

Here is an overview of my recent Github contributions, some of which due to my participation in Hacktoberfest 2016

Rubocop

A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide. http://rubocop.readthedocs.io

  • Added an option to the LineLength cop to ignore Rubocop directives frome causing line length violations
  • Submitted a new DuplicatedGem cop that causes violations if a gem is listed more than once in the Gemfile

Open Source Event Manager

An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences. http://osem.io

  • Created a consistent UI for the login page when a 3rd party authentication was enabled
  • Fixed the default help rollover from being incorrectly hidden on a form

OpenFarm

A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. You can grow anything! https://OpenFarm.cc

  • Patched the Vagrantfile to allow Vagrant to install any neccessary plugins before provisioning

Toronto Ruby Brigade Hacknight Workshops

I helped to develop workshop demos, READMEs, and other materials.

  • Speed Sprint — five Gosu projects where you start where the previous team left off
  • Asteroids — a clone of the classic arcade game using the Gosu game framework and Chipmunk physics engine
  • Shazbot — building Slack chatbots and integrating with 3rd party APIs
  • FBBot — continuing hacking on chat bots, this time using Facebook Messenger and integrating natural language processing via wit.ai

resume-template

A simple Jekyll + GitHub Pages powered resume template

  • Fixed a microdata item property that was incorrect