Boston Dell-vandenberg
Staff Software Engineer at Instacart
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBoston Dell-vandenberg is a Staff Software Engineer in Toronto with 15+ years building web platforms and leading teams at companies like Instacart. He brings deep hands-on expertise in React, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js and Ruby on Rails, combined with a strong focus on performance, tooling, debugging and UX. Boston has a history of shipping both product-facing features and infrastructure improvements, from WordPress plugin enhancements to large-scale consumer applications. He blends technical leadership with a maker’s mindset—founding a design studio and serving in CTO and VP roles—so he’s equally comfortable in code, product decisions, and cross-functional collaboration. Known as a pragmatic problem solver and continuous learner, he often surfaces non-obvious performance and caching wins that improve user experience and developer velocity.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Seneca College
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Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
xmlrpc7
bot-framework6
mediaelement6
skype6
nodejs6
media-queries6
firebase-authentication6
google-oauth6
firebase-hosting6
html5-video6
firebase6
css4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
roots/soil
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
WordPress plugin which contains a collection of modules to apply theme-agnostic front-end modifications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Boston primarily focused on modifying and extending the functionality of the WordPress plugin. They implemented a module to disable trackbacks, enhancing the plugin's features. The user also updated the plugin description and removed version strings from assets to improve caching. Additionally, they refactored code style to align with the project's standards and moved asset versioning control to a separate module.
wordpress-apiagnosticwordpressmodificationsphp
NickCL2/ultimate-posts-widget
Apr 2012 - Mar 2019
The ultimate widget for displaying posts, custom post types or sticky posts with an array of options.
Contributions:130 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 years
widgetarraywordpressdartoptions
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