Crysfel Villa
Engineering Manager at Wistia
Richardson, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCrysfel Villa is an engineering manager and JavaScript specialist with 15+ years of experience building and leading front-end and full-stack teams, currently shaping onboarding at Wistia to drive user activation and revenue. He began building web apps in the late 90s, moved through server-side Java and PHP, and became an early adopter and educator of Ext JS—publishing a book and training teams as a freelancer. Comfortable in ambiguous product spaces, he combines hands-on implementation (modernizing OSS sites like Coding-Coach by migrating it to Gatsby) with measurable experimentation and data-informed decisions. Known for mentoring earlier-career engineers, he blends deep practical experience in React, Angular and Sencha with a knack for turning complex UX/product trade-offs into pragmatic engineering outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineer, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad de Montemorelos
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
redux10
tailwindcss10
gatsby10
react10
react-native9
develop9
css9
html9
markdown7
markdown-it7
ecmascript6
php6
android6
typescript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Coding-Coach/coding-coach
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
This is the landing page :)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 68 commits, 198 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Crysfel primarily focused on improving the front-end of the application. They migrated the project to Gatsby, indicating a shift towards a modern, static site generator. They implemented and modified UI components, optimized images, and integrated external services like Google Analytics and Disqus. The user also worked on improving the blog content styling and content itself.
cssjavascriptmentoring
ModusCreateOrg/DiscoverMusic
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:119 commits in 2 months
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