Jon Kinney

Partner & CTO

Jon leads up the technical approach at Headway on everything from the core technologies and tools to the career growth plans for the dev team. Working across all projects at a high-level focusing on quality, consistency, and customer success, Jon keeps the development team functioning at their best. In the 10 years Prior to founding Headway, Jon was a .NET and Ruby on Rails developer and consultant, a FinTech Startup CTO, and a sound engineer and music producer.
"If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up."
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Their latest articles

Taming `schema.rb` Chaos: A Rails Developer's Guide to Deterministic Schema Generation

Struggling with schema.rb merge conflicts in Rails? Learn how deterministic schema generation in Rails 8.0.x solves this issue—and how to implement a fix today to streamline your development workflow and eliminate unnecessary conflicts.

Apple App Store Revenue: Keep a Bigger Piece of the Pie with Web-Based Purchases

Many of Headway’s clients are entrepreneurs bootstrapping a passion project or a new startup that just closed their first seed round. In either case, money in the early days is tight. That’s why we put together this guide to help navigate what will pass muster during an App Store Review so you can get the most out of the revenue generated with your iOS products.

Searching for Silver Bullets

Searching across a project’s codebase for keywords is a pretty standardrequirement when starting something new. Recently I inherited a very large Rails app with 238 models and 348 controllers. It was pretty clear that I was going to have to find a way to explore certain parts of the code by looking for what I was working on that day in isolation.

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