Caleb Buxton
Senior Software Engineer at Zipline
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolCaleb Buxton is a senior software engineer and technical lead with 14 years of experience building rich web applications and scalable distributed systems, currently contributing at Zipline from Burnaby, BC. He blends interaction design sensibilities with machine learning and a polyglot engineering practice to turn novel data into actionable insights and polished user experiences. Caleb has repeatedly scaled small teams through high-impact delivery and acquisition, and as Principal Ruby Engineer at Figment he drove observability and idempotent workflows that cut production DB load by 90% while restoring a single source of truth for financial reporting. An active front-end contributor to the popular Victory data-visualization library, he’s comfortable refactoring complex UI components and adding extensible props to improve developer ergonomics. Known for pragmatic leadership, he pairs hands-on coding with user-centered design to reduce friction between product, data, and operations.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
South Delta Secondary SchoolIncomplete Interaction Design, Incomplete Interaction Design at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (7)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
react10
charts10
d3js9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/victory
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 comments, 1 issue in 16 days
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and components of the `victory` library. They refactored and modified existing components, such as `VictoryLabel`, `SliceLabel`, and `VictoryScatter`, to improve functionality. The user also added features, including a `dataComponent` prop to several chart types and incorporated new demo examples for usage. This involved making updates and tests across multiple components related to data visualization within the library.
chartsreactvisualizationscomposabledata-visualization
cpb/opennorth-represent
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 11 months
api-clientapiapi-sruby-clientruby
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