Andrew Dupont
Staff Software Engineer at Veza
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Dupont is a Staff Software Engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in front-end and full-stack web development, currently based in Pasadena, CA. He has deep expertise in UI architecture, maintainability, and debugging, honed through roles from BMC and Spiceworks to leading Electron development at Vama and now Veza. A long-time maintainer and core committer of the influential Prototype JavaScript framework—author of Practical Prototype & script.aculo.us—he has shaped JavaScript patterns that influenced jQuery and beyond. Andrew is practiced at shipping under pressure, turning messy MVPs into robust products, and has a habit of writing thorough pull requests and living documentation that teammates routinely praise. He also builds diagnostic tools (including a Chrome extension used in production support) and speaks frequently about JavaScript at conferences, combining engineering depth with clear technical communication. Notably, his open-source contributions include UI fixes and event-handling improvements to the widely used prototypejs project.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B. Journalism Multimedia Journalism, B. Journalism Multimedia Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (4)
css10
javascript10
dom-manipulation10
html7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
prototypejs/prototype
Oct 2007 - Apr 2017
Prototype JavaScript framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:506 commits, 30 PRs, 28 pushes in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on enhancing the functionality and appearance of the user interface. They made changes to the CSS selector and enhanced functionality in JavaScript code, specifically in event handling for components such as the new `mouseenter` and `mouseleave` events and form submission. The contributions included fixing bugs and optimizing for better performance.
javascript-framework
savetheclocktower/vibrant-ink-redux-syntax
Nov 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch, 38 tags in 6 years 2 months
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