Brad Westfall
React Instructor Developer (Staff Level) at React Training
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Westfall is a seasoned full-stack web developer and educator with over two decades of experience and a 12-year focused track record in modern JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. As a staff-level React instructor at React Training he designs curriculum and delivers workshops to teams at Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Apple and other enterprise clients, while also maintaining hands-on contributions to well-known open-source projects like react-router and several ReactTraining workshops. He runs a long-standing consultancy, Built With Web, and has founded assessment startup Questionable.io, demonstrating an entrepreneurial bent alongside deep technical craft. Brad’s work spans the full spectrum from LAMP-era Linux systems to SPA/SSR frameworks like Remix and Next.js, and he often converts legacy class components into Hooks-based, declarative architectures to modernize codebases. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines curriculum development, public-facing workshop design, and practical front-end engineering—making him equally at home teaching a room of engineers or shipping production UI and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems (CIS), Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems (CIS) at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
react-hooks10
css10
ui-design10
webpack10
uid10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
html10
functional-components10
react-router10
react10
jsx10
go-modules9
url-routing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ReactTraining/react-workshop
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
The course material for our React Hooks workshop
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:738 commits, 31 PRs, 573 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brad's contributions focus on developing and configuring a React-based workshop. They primarily worked on webpack configuration, introducing modules, and setting up lesson-based structures. Furthermore, they implemented styling and structure for the courses using layout components. The changes indicate a focus on building the framework and initial UI structure for a React training workshop.
reactworkshopreact-hookstrainingcourse-material
ReactTraining/hooks-workshop
May 2019 - Dec 2019
The course material for our React Hooks workshop
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 27 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the front-end development of the React Hooks workshop. Their work included fixing and improving the user interface, such as adjusting the display of form elements and making code improvements. They also made corrections to the provided lesson content. These changes, including adjustments to instructions and solutions, suggest a focus on making the workshop materials more user-friendly and functional.
reactworkshopreact-hookscourse-materialreactjs
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