Desmond Naranjo
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDesmond Naranjo is a Product Engineer with 11 years building thoughtful web software, specializing in resilient data models and user-centered system design. He’s shipped mission-critical backend and data work across startups and campaigns—from architecting a HIPAA-grade mental health diagnostic platform as a founding engineer to processing millions of political SMS messages for engagement analytics. Comfortable as a senior Rails generalist, he’s advised teams on payment integrations, ERPs, and data pipelines while also serving as the first U.S. engineer for a UK edtech scale-up navigating local labor and education idiosyncrasies. Based in Chicago, he blends industrial design instincts with pragmatic engineering, favoring solutions you won’t regret as requirements evolve.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Industral Design, BA, Industral Design at University of Illinois ChicagoFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Dev Bootcamp
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Github Skills (200)
component-library10
hotel-booking10
partials10
crud10
admin10
server-side-rendering10
calculator9
crm9
downtime9
ui-components9
ruby9
evaluator9
ruby-on-rails9
ui-builder9
react9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dhnaranjo/phase-0-tracks
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:62 PRs, 46 pushes, 50 branches in 1 month
dhnaranjo/avo
Aug 2022 - Feb 2024
Configuration-based, no-maintenance, extendable Ruby on Rails admin
Contributions:20 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
rails-adminruby-on-railsadminrailsruby
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