Dale Zak
Senior Ruby On Rails Developer At TEKsystems At Apple Inc
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolDale Zak is a seasoned full-stack developer with over two decades of experience designing web and mobile applications, now focused on building scalable APIs and web apps in Ruby on Rails while working at TEKsystems for Apple. He blends deep Rails philosophy—MVC, DRY, KISS and separation of concerns—with modern front-end tools like Stimulus and Vue, and prefers hybrid mobile stacks such as Ionic/Capacitor informed by a long history of mobile development dating back to the pre-iOS smartphone era. Dale has led engineering teams and served as CTO and head of engineering for mission-driven organizations, applying software to empower citizens and support humanitarian projects for clients including the UN, World Bank, and Ushahidi. Comfortable across C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript and Objective-C, he brings both startup founder grit and enterprise delivery experience from roles spanning startups to global institutions. An advocate for practical, resilient mobile design (optimizing for limited screens and unreliable networks), he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and product-minded technical leadership.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Degree Computer Science Software Engineering, Honours Degree Computer Science Software Engineering at University of Saskatchewan
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Github Skills (200)
phonegap10
ui-components10
ushahidi10
cordova-plugin10
javascript10
stencil10
ionic10
mobile-application10
html10
phonegap-plugin10
angular10
progressive-web-apps10
trello-card10
typescript10
android-app10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
medic/TextForms
Jul 2010 - Dec 2010
Contributions:71 commits in 5 months
dalezak/rails-blueprint
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
A starter blueprint for fast tracking Rails development
Contributions:61 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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