Donte Hightower
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolDonte Hightower is a full-stack JavaScript engineer with 8 years of experience building user-focused web applications across startups and large tech firms, now serving as Founding Frontend Engineer at Sentra. He specializes in the React ecosystem (React, Redux, TypeScript) and Node.js backends, pairing modern front-end patterns with GraphQL and MongoDB to deliver production-ready features. Donte has shipped at-scale interfaces at companies like Rivian, Walmart Global Tech, and The Home Depot, and recently scaled community-driven dev mentorship through Chingu to help aspiring engineers build portfolio projects. He combines hands-on implementation with mentorship and nonprofit partnerships, often turning volunteer web work into polished, impact-driven apps. Based in Sacramento, his background in biology gives him a data-driven, experimental approach to problem solving and product iteration.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
feast7
react5
mov5
census5
statistics4
angle4
api4
travis4
traffic3
dashboard3
react-native3
visualize2
point-of-sale2
wikipedia2
javascript2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chingu-voyage4/Geckos-Team-18
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:75 commits, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
voyage
dontehightower/V5-Frontend-Speedrun
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 14 days
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