Dru Jensen
Principal Architect at Origence
Huntington Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolDru Jensen is a Principal Architect based in Huntington Beach with 16 years of experience modernizing and delivering web and mobile systems. He specializes in legacy system modernization, cloud migrations, and establishing architectural standards like microservices and event-driven design. A hands-on technologist, he built HIPAA-compliant WebRTC chat systems and an IoT Raspberry Pi live-streaming device, and has led migrations to AWS services such as ECS Fargate and Lambdas. Dru is a co-creator of the Amber web framework and a contributor to TechEmpower benchmarks and multi-language performance repositories, reflecting a strong focus on performance and developer ergonomics. He blends pragmatic delivery with clean architecture across Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring, Python/FastAPI, JavaScript/React and Crystal to drive measurable customer value.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at California State University-FullertonMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
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Github Skills (57)
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performance-monitor10
crystal-lang10
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performanceanalysis10
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code-generation10
performance-optimization10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
drujensen/fib
Nov 2016 - Oct 2022
Performance Benchmark of top Github languages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 233 commits, 98 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dru's primary contribution was adding implementations of the Fibonacci sequence in a wide variety of programming languages, including Swift, Rust, Elixir, Dart, Python, Perl, R, and Julia. They modified existing Java code and added various other language implementations, such as Nim and Carbon, to the performance benchmark repository. Furthermore, they updated the Python and C# implementations and corrected various compilation issues in multiple languages by applying formatting and other required changes.
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amberframework/amber
Mar 2017 - Nov 2022
A Crystal web framework that makes building applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. Get started with quick prototyping, less bugs, and blazing fast performance.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 34 reviews, 300 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dru primarily contributed to the development of the Amber web framework's core functionality. Their commits focused on enhancing the code generator, specifically improving database and template language support, including ECR and Slang. The user also implemented features like adding database options to project initialization, creating and modifying code to generate various elements like controllers, mailers, models, and migration files. Furthermore, the user worked on version bumping and fixing docker integration.
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