Don Smith
Principal Consultant at HYPR NZ
Tākaka, Tasman, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorDon Smith is a Principal Consultant based in Tākaka, New Zealand with 14 years of experience helping teams build better software and stronger collaboration practices. He blends hands-on engineering—from front-end React/Webpack work and automated build/deploy tools to load testing with Python/Locust—with education and curriculum design gained running Dev Academy campuses and pivoting an in-person bootcamp to fully online during COVID. Comfortable leading across enterprise, startup and cloud projects, he’s delivered everything from WPF enterprise clients and SCCM deployments to IoT concepts and developer guidance at Microsoft. Known for a human-centred approach, he actively mentors engineers and shapes teams as much as code, while his open-source contributions (including a React/Webpack starter) reflect a pragmatic focus on developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
testing10
webpack10
webpacker10
react10
babel69
babel-core9
boilerplate9
babeljs9
enzyme7
jsx7
ruby-on-rails6
wcf6
meteor6
knockoutjs6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dev-academy-challenges/boilerplate-react-webpack
Jun 2016 - Feb 2021
A webpack React starter solution
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 93 PRs, 83 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Don primarily focused on front-end development tasks within this React and Webpack boilerplate repository. They added and updated tests, refactored the server configuration, converted the app to a functional component, and made the app consistent with other boilerplates. Additionally, the user addressed dependency updates and fixed linting issues and improved test setup.
reactphase2react-webpackboilerplateweek4
dev-academy-challenges/boilerplate-redux-async
Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
Simple base for front-end only Redux with a sample async action
Contributions:18 commits, 53 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 10 months
reactphase2boilerplateweek6async-action
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