Branden Byers
Sr Test Automation Developer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Byers is a senior test automation developer in Portland with 11 years of experience building reliable end-to-end test pipelines across web, mobile, and cloud environments. He has led test engineering at companies from startups to enterprise—including Nacelle and Genesys—and now drives quality at 1Password. A hands-on full-stack contributor, Branden has contributed front- and back-end fixes to the high-profile freeCodeCamp codebase and has operational experience with tools like XCTest, Protractor/Selenium, Node.js, Jenkins, and AWS Device Farm. His background in theatre arts, published book authoring, podcasting, and photography gives him an uncommon blend of technical depth and human-centered communication that helps teams collaborate and ship pragmatic solutions. He’s motivated by work that benefits others and leverages varied creative experiences to solve engineering problems with empathy and clarity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Thai Studies International Thai Studies Program, Thai Studies International Thai Studies Program at Thammasat UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampBachelor of Arts (BA) Theatre Arts, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Theatre Arts at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (20)
programming-language10
javascript10
back-end-development9
jquery9
front-end-development9
nodejs9
react8
expressjs8
mongodb-database7
mongodb7
swift6
backgrounds6
xcode-ui-testing6
xcode6
xcodebuild6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code for free.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 13 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Branden made contributions to both the front-end and back-end of the freeCodeCamp codebase. They updated user profile information on the front-end and edited the wording of jQuery exercises. Additionally, the user made changes to the back-end code related to user migration and deployed a fix to improve Twitter sign-in on production. Finally, the user merged remote-tracking branches, integrated UI updates, and added console logs for debugging.
mathcurriculumreactlearn-to-code-for-freecss
brandenbyers/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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