Breck Yunits
Apprentice Carpenter at A Public Domain Company
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolBreck Yunits is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building developer-facing tools and languages for scientists and non-developers alike. Based in Honolulu, he leads A Public Domain Company, shipping projects like The World Wide Scroll, ScrollHub, PLDB.io and BuilderNews while also contributing open-source work such as PLDB and Mozilla Appmaker’s UI. His background spans startups and tech leaders—co-founding Nudge, engineering at Microsoft, and shaping data-driven products at Our World in Data—blending product intuition with full‑stack execution. He pairs an economics degree from Duke with hands‑on engineering and investor perspective as an angel, and volunteers in cancer research support locally, reflecting a commitment to public benefit beyond code.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Boston College High SchoolB.S. Economics, B.S. Economics at Duke UniversityY Combinator
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
typescript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
ejs9
user-data8
data-model8
programming-language8
data-set8
knowledge-graph7
2d6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
breck7/pldb
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
PLDB: a Programming Language DataBase
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 434 commits, 196 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Breck contributed to the `PLDB` project by implementing a keywords page, adding features for filtering languages, and improving the display of information. They made changes to the `builder.ts` file to build the keywords, file extensions, and top pages. The user also modified `database/pages.ts` and `database/PLDBBase.ts` to enhance language filtering, page ranking, and display of language information.
databaseprogramming-languageprogramming-languagesdataknowledge-graph
mozilla-appmaker/appmaker
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Appmaker was an exploration in making app authoring available to non-developers
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Breck primarily contributed to the development of the user interface for an app authoring tool. Their work included adding a designer route and implementing new components such as a camera, metronome, and various UI elements. The contributions involved modifying existing CSS, JavaScript, and EJS template files to integrate new features and improve the user experience. Key focus areas included component-based design and event handling within the application.
reactauthoring
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