Cale Newman
Software Developer at Merative
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCale Newman is a versatile software developer with 11 years of experience building front-end and full-stack applications across consulting and product teams, currently contributing at Merative in Austin. He specializes in JavaScript (React, Angular, Node), web technologies, and mobile native development in Objective-C and Swift, alongside server-side Scala and Java. At IBM he focused on health-related software and consulted on web and mobile application delivery, bringing strong Linux and database (SQL/NoSQL) experience to production environments. An active open-source contributor, he improved React Hot Loader’s handling of modern JavaScript features like class properties, arrow functions, and async patterns—work that enhanced developer experience in a widely referenced project. Curious about edge cases and reliability, he combines careful testing with practical engineering to keep complex UIs responsive and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (11)
babel610
babeljs10
javascript10
react10
babel-core10
testing9
hotswap8
hot-module-replacement8
webpack8
webpacker8
hmr8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gaearon/react-hot-loader
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Tweak React components in real time. (Deprecated: use Fast Refresh instead.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 54 commits, 62 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Cale focused on enhancing the functionality of React Hot Loader, a tool designed for hot-reloading React components. Their work primarily involved implementing and testing features related to class properties and arrow functions within React components. They addressed issues around argument handling, destructured parameters, and asynchronous functions, extending the capabilities of the hot-reloading process. Additionally, the user updated testing to improve the reliability and usability of the library.
tweakreactrefreshfast-refreshreact-components
calesce/nba-trades
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:119 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
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