Justin is available for hire

Justin York

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Pierce City, MO, United States

Toptal Member Since

January 18, 2016

Justin is a full stack web developer that has found a niche with JavaScript and genealogy. He is excited about the advent of serverless architecture via AWS Lambda and the adoption of HTTP/2 so that we can stop bundling our assets.

jQuery Node.js CSS REST APIs PHP D3.js Polymer SQL MySQL Bootstrap Amazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJS Elasticsearch CouchDB PostGIS

Portfolio

York Solutions

Node.js, D3.js, PHP, JavaScript

Genealogy Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, CouchDB, Node.js...

FamilySearch

Java, REST, PHP, Node.js, JavaScript

Experience

MySQL - 6 years JavaScript - 6 years CSS - 6 years REST APIs - 5 years RESTful Development - 5 years PHP - 5 years Node.js - 3 years Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Cloud9

The most amazing...

...project I've built geocoded genealogy collections to historical political boundaries.

Work Experience

Founder

2014 - PRESENT

York Solutions

Enhanced the PHP and JavaScript SDKs for the FamilySearch API.
Created developer tools for the FamilySearch API.
Added internationalization to a node.js and JavaScript based website.
Designed a dynamic pedigree with D3.js.
Solidified a corporate accounting system developed in PHP.

Technologies: Node.js, D3.js, PHP, JavaScript

Co-Founder

2013 - 2014

Genealogy Systems

Designed and developed Find-A-Record.
Created a scalable architecture for processing and geocoding genealogy collections.
Created multiple open source JavaScript libraries for using the FamilySearch API.
Provided customer support.
Won 2nd place in the 2014 RootsTech Developer Challenge.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, CouchDB, Node.js, JavaScript

Developer Support Engineer

2012 - 2013

FamilySearch

Provided technical support to developers using the FamilySearch REST API.
Created and managed a developer center with documentation and developer tools.
Worked with product management and engineering to deliver new features.
Debugged the REST API.
Created stability and usage reports in Splunk.

Technologies: Java, REST, PHP, Node.js, JavaScript

Software Engineer

2010 - 2012

BITS

Designed and developed a scalable REST API in AWS.
Created JavaScript widgets that used the REST API.
Create a documentation system for the API and widgets.
Customize a ViArt installation (PHP based eCommerce site).
Migrated a cafeteria menu planner from Visual FoxPro to PHP.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), jQuery UI, JavaScript, PHP

Experience

Find-A-Record

Website that searches your family tree in FamilySearch for research opportunities. Built with node.js and JavaScript.

FamilySearch JavaScript SDK

https://github.com/FamilySearch/familysearch-javascript-sdk

I'm the primary maintainer of the SDK.

D3 Pedigree Examples

https://github.com/justincy/d3-pedigree-examples

While learning how to create interactive pedigrees with D3, I documented how to provide common features such as expanding the tree and displaying descendants.

WikiTree: FamilySearch Connections

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/FamilySearch_Connections

An application that helps a WikiTree user match their ancestors to the FamilySearch Family Tree. Built with JavaScript and Bootstrap.

RootsSearch

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rootssearch/aolcffalbhpnojekmimmelebjchjmmgn?hl=en

A Chrome Extension that helps with searching for genealogy records.

Quality Support

https://groups.google.com/a/ldsmail.net/d/msg/FSDN/Urmuy5lep7k/A02uPd8zhooJ

A public email thread thanking me for quality customer support.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript, HTML, PHP, CSS, Java, SQL

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, jQuery, D3.js, REST APIs, Polymer, jQuery UI, React Redux

Paradigms

RESTful Development, REST

Frameworks

AngularJS, Bootstrap

Tools

Git

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Storage

Elasticsearch, MySQL, CouchDB, PostGIS, PostgreSQL

Other

Cloud9, Web Components

Education

2005 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Brigham Young University - Provo, UT

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