Devin Witherspoon
Software Engineer at WorkOS
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDevin Witherspoon is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building and modernizing web and mobile frontends, currently contributing at WorkOS from Old Toronto. He has driven major migrations and developer-experience improvements—moving projects from Flow to TypeScript, upgrading React versions with zero user regressions, and doubling build speeds through Webpack upgrades. Devin pairs hands-on engineering with coaching and process work, leading accessibility training, mentoring interns, and introducing linting and testing practices that measurably improved code quality. His background spans startups and large orgs (from Palantir and Facebook internships to CZI and Abnormal Security), giving him a strong track record of shipping reliable, accessible user experiences at scale. An early mobile and game developer, he brings practical cross-platform insight that often surfaces in performance and tooling wins behind the scenes.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Software Engineering, BSE Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (127)
parser10
style-dictionary10
colors10
accessibility10
styles10
react10
decorators9
ui-components9
firefox-addon9
emotionjs9
component-library9
prosemirror9
chrome-extension9
postcss9
css9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dcwither/react-editable
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
Decorator for maintaining editing state of React components
Contributions:3 releases, 72 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 7 months
reactdecoratorsstate-managementdecoratorhigher-order-component
dcwither/prezto
Jul 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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