Derek Pollard
Computer Programmer at Digital Revolution
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Pollard is a pragmatic computer programmer and full-stack engineer with a decade of experience building web experiences from Pittsburgh. He currently splits his time between leading development at Digital Revolution and running Skill Sprout, LLC., blending hands-on engineering with product-minded delivery. His open-source work includes front-end enhancements to the popular VuePress project—improving code presentation, accessibility, and international navigation—demonstrating attention to UX and globalization. Colleagues know him as a thoughtful problem-solver who balances clean interfaces with accessibility and encoding edge cases that often get overlooked. A lifelong learner (aptly summarized on GitHub as Developer. Sage. Student. Master.), he brings both humility and depth to engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
Bradley University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
front-end-development10
vue10
html10
static-site-generation10
forloop9
laravel9
css9
vue-component9
php9
nodejs9
accessibility8
mongodb6
vuejs26
react6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vuejs/vuepress
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
📝 Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Derek focused on enhancing the front-end components and user experience of the VuePress static site generator. Their contributions included implementing code group and code block components to enhance the presentation of code examples. They also addressed accessibility issues, specifically informing screen readers about links opening in new tabs or windows. Furthermore, the user fixed a bug related to encoding in page hash navigation when non-English characters were used.
static-sitedocs-generatorblog-enginevuesite-generator
d-pollard/Pokemon-GO-node-api
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 19 days
golangapinode-apinodejsapi-library
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