Derek Maffett
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Maffett is a versatile web developer with 11 years of experience building production software and automations across JavaScript, Elm, Haskell, PureScript and Ruby, with a strong leaning toward ML-family languages. He has shipped backend e-commerce systems, medical software, and client-facing apps while contributing robust test automation and integration tests to well-known open-source data-visualization work at Formidable Labs (notably improving reliability in the victory shared-events suite). Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, Derek emphasizes solid engineering practices and compassionate team culture, pairing technical rigor with attention to developer experience. His background in speech-language research and experimental EEG work gives him an unusual lens on human-centered design and empirical problem solving that informs how he approaches software and collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist, Bachelor of Science (BS), Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist at University of WashingtonCertificate, Ruby on Rails, Certificate, Ruby on Rails at Code Fellows
Github Skills (10)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
enzyme10
sinon10
react10
testing10
test-automation9
charts9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/victory
Jan 2017 - May 2017
A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:137 commits, 3 comments, 3 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the testing framework and integration tests for the "victory-shared-events" component, a core part of the data visualization library. Their work involved creating and refining tests, refactoring data generation, and ensuring shared events triggered correctly across various chart components, using tools like Sinon and Enzyme. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability and thoroughness of the library's testing infrastructure.
chartsreactvisualizationscomposabledata-visualization
DerekMaffett/angular_gem_store
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:65 commits in 5 days
code-schoolgemangular
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