Bruce Paul
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Paul is a Senior Software Engineer based in Oakland with a decade of experience building modular, scalable full-stack applications and systems at Airbnb. He specializes in JavaScript and system design, favoring clean, reusable code that accelerates iteration in fast-paced, agile teams. His background ranges from custom WordPress theme development to production-grade React components—he’s contributed to open-source React portal tooling that improves modal/overlay behavior across React versions. Comfortable bridging front-end UX concerns and backend architecture, he brings practical engineering discipline from prototypes to at-scale services. Provocatively, his blend of agency-era client work and large-platform engineering gives him a rare appreciation for both design fidelity and operational robustness.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorInteractive Media, New Media, Interactive Media, Web Design, Web Development, Interactive Media, New Media, Interactive Media, Web Design, Web Development at Emerson College
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
prop10
react10
props10
modals9
modal-dialog9
portal9
modal-windows9
react-testing-library8
testing-library-react8
react-testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tajo/react-portal
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
🎯 React component for transportation of modals, lightboxes, loading bars... to document.body or else.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Bruce primarily contributed to the development of a React component library focused on creating modal and portal functionalities. Their work involved implementing fallback mechanisms for React versions, updating tests to align with different React versions, and improving the component's usability by incorporating features such as closing portals on outside clicks and escape key presses. They also refactored the code for better readability, maintaining existing functionality and enhancing the component's overall structure.
loading-barmodalsreact-componentreactportal
brucewpaul/project-initializer
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:73 pushes in 1 month
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