Desmond Morris
Staff Fullstack Software Engineer at Desmond Morris
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDesmond Morris is a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience building product-grade web applications and APIs across startups and larger teams. He blends hands-on fullstack delivery with leadership experience—from cofounding and serving as CTO at healthcare startup Juno Medical to senior engineering roles at Zapier and Atlassian (Trello). Comfortable across backend integrations and streaming APIs, he maintains open-source work such as updates to a node-twitter client to keep pace with evolving platform endpoints. As a long-time freelancer and founder, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a product-minded approach to architecture and execution. He holds both BS in Computer Science and an MS in Management of Technology from Fairfield University, pairing technical depth with operational savvy.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Management of Technology, Master of Science Management of Technology at Fairfield University
English
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Github Skills (17)
apim10
javascript10
twitter-api10
api10
nodejs10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
ruby-on-rails6
flask6
heroku6
flask-sqlalchemy6
drupal6
docker6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
desmondmorris/node-twitter
Jun 2013 - Jun 2017
Client library for the Twitter REST and Streaming API's.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 126 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Desmond primarily updated the `node-twitter` library to align with the Twitter API's evolving endpoints. Their contributions involved modifying the library's code to support API version 1.1, including updates to endpoints for streaming and user-related functionalities. They also addressed code quality by fixing indentation and refactoring code for improved readability and functionality, particularly related to how user IDs are handled. These changes demonstrate a focus on keeping the library current with the Twitter API's specifications.
apiclient-libraryapi-snode-jsstreaming-api
desmondmorris/node-tesseract
Sep 2012 - Jan 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years 4 months
ocrtesseract-ocrtesseract
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