Cj R
Senior Creator
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCj R is a Senior Creator and full-stack software engineer based in Denver with over a decade of experience building and teaching web applications. He blends hands-on engineering—updating and hardening back-end starter kits like his Express API starter—with public-facing education as the long-running host of Coding Garden and streaming instructor on Twitch and YouTube. His career spans roles from help-desk lead and system admin to software engineer and chief full-stack engineer, giving him a practical, systems-oriented perspective on developer tooling and production reliability. At Sentry he continues to translate complex engineering topics into accessible content while still shipping clean, self-documenting code. Known for refactoring tests, modernizing linting and middleware in OSS projects, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a passion for mentoring and content creation that amplifies impact beyond his code.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Louisiana Tech University
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Github Skills (14)
jes10
nodejs10
javascript10
expressjs10
jestjs10
jtest10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
eslint9
middleware8
dependency-management8
package-management8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
w3cj/express-api-starter
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
A basic starter for an express.js API
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cj primarily focused on improving the backend functionality and structure of the Express.js API starter project. They updated the ESLint configuration, added middleware such as CORS and body parsing, and refactored testing from Mocha to Jest. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and made minor changes to the API endpoints.
expressjs
CodingGarden/news
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 26 days
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