Brooklin Myers
Elixir Instructor at Elixir Newbie
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolBrooklin Myers is an Elixir instructor and web developer with nine years of experience building backend systems and teaching others, currently based in Montreal. He combines hands-on Elixir/Phoenix development—contributing utility libraries and validation tooling to DockYard-Academy curricula—with content creation as host of the Elixir Newbie podcast, documenting the learning journey for newcomers. His background spans full-stack work with Django, React, and React Native, plus rigorous practices like TDD and end-to-end testing from agile teams. Known for clear technical communication and pedagogy, he turns complex concepts into practical learning resources while still shipping production-ready code. A self-described nerd who balances programming craft with a love of Dungeons & Dragons, he brings curiosity and community-mindedness to both code and mentorship.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at CodeCore Developer Bootcamp
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Github Skills (16)
mixture10
mixins10
mixing10
elixir10
mixnet10
phoenix-framework9
phoenix-liveview9
apache-phoenix9
react6
facebook-graph-api6
erlang6
animation6
react-native6
instagram6
facebook6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DockYard-Academy/curriculum
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 109 reviews, 1373 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Brooklin primarily contributed to the development of a utility library within the Elixir/Phoenix-based repository. Their work included creating a new mix project for the library and implementing supporting files. They added functionality to the utility library, with a focus on implementing validation forms. Furthermore, the user made updates to the codebase to fix grammatical errors in code comments.
otpelixirmixphoenix
BrooklinJazz/rpg-binder
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
A note taking app for rpg games like dungeons and dragons
Contributions:240 commits, 8 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 months
note-taking-appgamesdungeonsnote-takingrpg
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