Donovan Walker
Senior Software Engineer at Sabbatical / Personal Study
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonovan Walker is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building front-end driven products, currently at Pearson and running a small product studio, ROFLMAO Industries, that focuses on interesting, high-quality work. He has a strong track record improving user interfaces and responsiveness—demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile steemit/condenser front end—while also architecting end-to-end systems in embedded and cloud-connected environments. Donovan mixes hands-on coding with product ownership, having led teams and driven architecture at companies from Best Buy to NextEra Analytics and RedBrick Health. He deliberately interleaves periods of sabbatical R&D to explore new ideas, keeping his technical skills and creative instincts fresh. Driven by a mission to “make life better,” he favors projects that add joy and measurable value while accepting only work that feels purposeful.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science at Arizona State University
Github Skills (6)
react10
jsx10
javascript9
jscript9
image-rendering8
css7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
steemit/condenser
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
The greatest application front-end to the Steem Blockchain.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:515 commits, 125 PRs, 373 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Donovan's commits primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Steem Blockchain application. They implemented changes to improve content display, including updating the blockquote extractor and linking user names in comments. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the responsiveness of the interface, and incorporated modifications to the image rendering to better display the content.
social-networkreactblockstacksteemitethereum
relativityboy/js-util
Feb 2019 - Aug 2023
A lib for various utility functions. Nothing special. Just keeping package weight down.
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years 7 months
utility-functionsjsmemoizeaspectsutility
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