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William Cunningham

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

East Providence, RI, United States

Toptal Member Since

August 22, 2018

William is a full-stack developer with over five years of experience and an active participant in the open-source community, contributing to various libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem including React. He is always looking to advance his skills and to solve problems others are hesitant to.

Ruby on Rails (RoR)Ruby React Redux Express.js SQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Linux Git Backbone.js jQuery AngularJS Visual Studio Code (VS Code)Next.js

Portfolio

Insight Data Science

Ruby on Rails (RoR), React

Action Verb LLC

Redux, React

Gidig

PostgreSQL, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Experience

JavaScript - 5 years Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 4 years Express.js - 1 year Redux - 1 year React - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on recently was adding offline capabilities to the Next.js framework.

Work Experience

Full-stack Developer

2019 - 2019

Insight Data Science

Created and deployed application for managing applicants to the program.
Integrated with Greenhouse (Talent Acquisition Software).

Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), React

React Engineer

2018 - 2018

Action Verb LLC

Migrated application to newest versions of React, React Router, and Redux Form.
Created interface for syncing folders with remote servers.
Created a file picker supporting multiple selections and search.

Technologies: Redux, React

Web Developer

2015 - 2017

Gidig

Developed and maintained SQL queries, greatly increasing performance for several key actions.
Wrote and maintained generic components: date and time pickers, file pickers, and custom validators, among others.
Introduced client-side testing.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Web Developer

2013 - 2015

Quizate

Wrote a jQuery plugin for nested text selections.
Created custom tools for browser testing, tripling the number of maintained tests.
Published a server fake enabling testing of Braintree Payments integrations.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, jQuery, Backbone.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby

Experience

Cliff Effects

Tool to help Project Hope case workers advise clients on a potential loss in effective income when increases to salary dis-proportionally decrease government benefits. I was a volunteer for much of 2018.

Next.js Redux Replay

https://github.com/wacii/next-redux-replay

I developed a file specifically designed to integrate Next.js with Redux. It defines a higher-order component (HOC) for page-level components, which transfers the Redux store from the server to the client as a series of actions.

Redux Offline

https://github.com/redux-offline/redux-offline

JavaScript library that adds offline capabilities to an application using Redux. Allows application state and pending updates to be persisted between sessions. Current maintainer.

React Guide: Integrating with Other LIbraries

https://reactjs.org/docs/integrating-with-other-libraries.html

A guide in the official React documentation explaining how React can be used with other libraries, specifically jQuery and Backbone. Written with input from the React community.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript, Ruby, SQL

Frameworks

Redux, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Express.js, AngularJS, Next.js

Libraries/APIs

React, Backbone.js, jQuery

Other

Front-end Development

Storage

PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Tools

Vim Text Editor, Git

Platforms

Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Certifications

JULY 2019 - JULY 2022

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS Training and Certification

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