Dylan Runkel
Senior Software Developer at Jane App
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Runkel is a senior software developer based in North Vancouver with over a decade of experience building scalable web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails. He has progressed through hands-on and leadership roles at Jane.app, Clio, and other companies, driving performance improvements, major upgrades, and team delivery. Dylan combines backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to projects like MarkUs, where he enhanced group management, annotations, and internationalization—with infrastructure and testing know-how from AWS, RSpec/Capybara, and database optimization. Comfortable leading refactors and shipping cross-cutting changes, he’s as likely to be improving MySQL query performance as mentoring teams on architecture. Outside work he stays active mountain biking and skiing, bringing the same practical curiosity and persistence to both code and the outdoors.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Dalhousie UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bishop's College School
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Github Skills (25)
rails10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
database-design9
rest-api9
minitest8
unit-test8
rspec8
testing8
internationalization7
localization7
i18next7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MarkUsProject/Markus
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the MarkUs project, addressing issues related to group management and annotation texts. They modified the `groups_controller.rb` to handle group member removal and student data updates. Furthermore, the user enhanced the annotation feature by adding `created_by` and `last_edited_by` fields to the annotation texts, along with internationalization, upload functionality, and tests for the same. They also worked on fixing an issue related to graded submissions and refactoring code.
attachmentsme/ruby-box
Dec 2015 - Apr 2020
Ruby SDK for Box API v2.0
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 comments in 4 years 4 months
box-apiruby-sdk
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