Lee Jarvis
CTO & Co-Founder at Southpaw Software
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarLee Jarvis is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 16 years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems and founding startups in the UK. As CTO and Co-Founder at Spark Real Estate Software and Director at Southpaw Software, he blends strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering. A long-time Ruby and Elixir practitioner, Lee contributes to well-known open-source projects such as Mechanize and Chronic, focusing on core library maintenance, parsing accuracy, and robustness. His work shows a practical emphasis on bug-fixes, refactors, and edge-case handling—skills that keep production systems resilient. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance product needs with clean, maintainable code.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
testing10
debugging10
date-parsing10
webscraping10
command-line10
ruby10
easyui9
xml-parsing9
refactoring9
code-library9
lib9
user-friendly8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
leejarvis/slop
Oct 2012 - Sep 2022
Simple Lightweight Option Parsing - ✨ new contributors welcome ✨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 321 commits, 45 PRs in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lee primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the option parsing library. They ensured the correct behavior of boolean options and addressed issues related to argument handling, such as blank arguments. Additionally, the user refactored code to improve the library's functionality and merged in updates. The user's changes focused on refining the core functionality and addressing minor defects to improve overall robustness.
parsingcommand-lineoption-parserruby
mojombo/chronic
Sep 2012 - May 2014
Chronic is a pure Ruby natural language date parser.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Lee primarily focused on enhancing the natural language date parser, 'Chronic'. Their contributions included improving the parsing of time-related data, such as microseconds, and fixing date-related bugs. They also refactored the code, explicitly requiring dependencies and removing unnecessary exception classes. These modifications resulted in improved performance and a more robust and accurate date parsing library.
date-parserruby
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