Foxfire Knight
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFoxfire Knight is a senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience delivering pragmatic, high-impact product work across startups and enterprise teams. Comfortable leading migrations and systems design, Fox spearheaded major efforts like front-end testing consolidation, SSO/SAML integrations, and large UI rewrites while also creating reusable design-system interfaces and internal package distribution. Their background in stage management and healthcare informs a discipline for advance planning, crisis management, and empathetic collaboration under pressure. Now freelancing from New York, Fox reduces operational dependencies and modernizes legacy codebases, favoring measurable wins like cut load times and reduced monolith surface area. They bring a hybrid mindset—production-focused engineering tempered by a theater-trained ability to keep complex projects running smoothly.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology at University of MichiganInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at International Academy of Bloomfield HillsWeb Development, Web Development at App Academy
Japanese, English
Github Skills (8)
emotion10
mongodb10
react9
react-ui-kit9
styled-components9
ui-components8
react-components7
typescript7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Faeylayn/Faeylayn.github.io
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
Faeylayn/Instagib
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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