Casey Ydenberg
Lab Software Developer at Borealis Biosciences, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolCasey Ydenberg is a web and lab software developer in Vancouver who blends a Ph.D. in molecular biology with 12 years of production web experience, building data-rich applications and developer-friendly tooling. He has founded Living Pixel Solutions to focus on high-quality data visualization and has led front-end engineering at companies delivering complex analysis platforms, progressive web apps, and a browser-based rich-text editor for scholarly manuscripts. Deeply experienced with React, ProseMirror, d3 and TypeScript, he advocates progressive enhancement and TDD while favoring simple, maintainable solutions. Casey is also an active open-source contributor—having improved rules and fixed tricky edge cases in the widely used stylelint project—bringing careful testing and attention to correctness from his science background. He excels at translating domain complexity into clear, performant user interfaces and once implemented a full DNA chromatogram analysis platform that ran entirely in the browser.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (First Class Honors), Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, B.Sc. (First Class Honors), Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser UniversityLangley Fine Arts SchoolPh.D., Molecular Biology, Ph.D., Molecular Biology at Princeton University
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Github Skills (16)
css10
linting10
testing10
javascript9
postcss8
browserify6
google-workspace6
css-in-js6
foreach6
google-apps-script6
ant6
electron6
forms6
dropdown-menu6
cordova6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stylelint/stylelint
Feb 2017 - Dec 2018
A mighty CSS linter that helps you avoid errors and enforce conventions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 47 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Casey contributed significantly to the `stylelint` project by implementing and improving rules related to CSS linting. Their work involved adding new options to existing rules, such as the `ignoreFontFamilyNames` and `ignorePattern` options, and creating tests to ensure their functionality. The user also addressed bug fixes, like correcting false positives in the `unit-no-unknown` rule within `calc` functions, and enhancing existing tests for better coverage and reliability.
linterlintenforce-conventionssugarsspostcss
CAYdenberg/Chart.js-ErrorBars
Jul 2013 - Dec 2017
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 5 months
chartscharton-linejavascriptbar-charts
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