Kai Stewart
Freelance Web Developer at 826 Valencia
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKai Stewart (they/them) is a freelance web developer with 13 years of Ruby on Rails and JavaScript experience, based in Oakland, CA, building clean, well-tested apps. They span the stack—from Rails back-end to front-end work with JQuery, JavaScript, Backbone, Angular, and React/Redux—delivering user-friendly, scalable solutions. A notable open-source contributor, Kai helped RailsBridge's bridge_troll project by adding a volunteer-email feature, access controls, a new controller/action/route, and associated tests and email notifications. Their career includes freelance Rails contracting and roles at 826 Valencia, One Degree, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Homebase HQ, with a track record of collaborating with support teams to diagnose and fix issues. They hold a BFA in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University and bring a creative, multidisciplinary background—teaching art and fencing and even performing in a spooky folk band—into their design and development work.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Pictorial Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Pictorial Arts at SJSUThe Internet
French, asl
Stackoverflow
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39kreached
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Github Skills (21)
rspec10
rails10
actionmailer10
ruby-on-rails10
eventmanager9
event-handling9
event-manager9
event-bus9
html48
html8
html58
erb8
git7
cookies6
bdd6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
railsbridge/bridge_troll
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Event management system for all the Bridges (RailsBridge, MobileBridge, GoBridge, etc!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kai contributed to the development of the RailsBridge event management system. They implemented a feature to provide organizers with a list of volunteer emails, including the creation of a new controller action, view, and route. They also prevented non-organizers from accessing the volunteer email page and fixed the specs related to the volunteer email functionality. Furthermore, the user set the site-wide 'from' address for emails and implemented a volunteer confirmation email.
management-systemevent-management-systemevent-managementrailsruby
k-stewart/EBWiki
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
repository of police abuse cases against people of color
Contributions:5 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
policecasesabuse
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