About Jesse

My name is Jesse Waites and I am an app developer and a very experienced Ruby on Rails specialist. I have over a decade of 40 hour a week, production level Ruby on Rails experience. I have been working with Rails since version 3 and it has been quite rewarding to see the technology mature as much as it has.

Speaking of which, I am very interested in the new Rails 8 ‘Hotwire Native’ technology, which allows Rails Developers to make iPhone & Android apps with Ruby On Rails, as I once wrote a book about the app development process (Apple version here, Kindle version here). In fact, I have the distinction of being one of the first iOS Developers on the planet, as I had an app for sale on the Apple App Store on the very first day that the App Store was opened, July 10, 2008.

Now I spend time making Web, iOS, and Android apps using a single Ruby on Rails codebase. In fact, if you are a fellow Ice Climber, you may know me from my suite of ice climbing apps over at IceClimb.org. Ice Climbing routes are very ephemeral and can change or disappear from one day to the next. My suite of ice climbing web, iPhone, and android apps allow for ice climbers to crowdsource the conditions of ice climbing routes, making ice climbing just a little bit safer and slightly more predictable. World famous alpinist Conrad Anker himself once told me “This app is such a cool idea!”

Polaroids of previous

adventures

My first successful high altitude mountaineering challenge! On the summit of Gran Paradiso, the highest (non-Alps) mountain in Italy!

Taken during my quest to hike all 48 mountains in New Hampshire that are over 4000 feet high. I completed this quest in 2023!

High above Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland climbing what is known as a 'Via Ferrata'. Switzerland has to be seen to be believed!

Antelope Canyon in Arizona. I saw the Grand Canyon on this trip and highly recommend visiting the American Southwest!

I'm grateful to live in New England and have access so much amazing ice climbing! This was the tallest and bluest ice I have climbed in my entire life!

A stop at Lago di Braies before beginning the multi-day trek 'Alta Via 1'. I absolutely love long distance trekking.

My mountaineering team pausing for a photo shortly after successfully summiting Breithorn near Zermatt, Switzerland.

In my spare time I enjoy ice climbing, hiking, biking, rock climbing, volunteering with the Appalachian Mountain Club, and training for high altitude mountaineering. In the past I have traversed the Cosmiques Arête in France, the Aiguilles d’Entrèves in the Alps, and have climbed the highest mountain in Italy, Gran Paradiso. I am now training for what is known in Alpinist circles as “The Berner Oberland Trilogy”, which entails climbing Mönch, Jungfrau and then finally the Eiger in the Swiss Alps.

If your development team works with Ruby on Rails and/or Hotwire Native and you’d like to get in touch, please feel free to drop me a line.