Summary
Barton Young is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building and migrating customer-facing web applications, currently contributing to Wellthy after leading large front-end rewrites at Build.com. He specializes in JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems—React, GraphQL/Apollo, Node.js and Jest—plus practical experience with feature flagging and CI/CD tools like LaunchDarkly and Harness. Barton excels at taking ideas from paper to production and untangling complex legacy codebases, having driven conversions from Backbone to modern React stacks and improved checkout performance and A/B testing strategies. Equally comfortable coding and coordinating, he brings strong, empathetic communication skills that help diverse teams align and execute. Based in Jackson, Wyoming, he pairs engineering with adventurous problem-solving learned from backcountry skiing, alpine climbing, and hands-on timber framing, which inform his strategic, resilience-focused approach to software delivery.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Immersive, Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
Bachelor of Arts International Business, Dual Immersion in Finance and Spanish, Bachelor of Arts International Business, Dual Immersion in Finance and Spanish at Mississippi State University