Garrett Bland
Tech Lead at Ally
Hays, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Bland is a tech lead and full-stack developer with a decade of experience designing and shipping JavaScript-driven products, currently leading teams at Ally. He specializes in React, React Native, Node.js and Next.js, and has spent the last five-plus years building production web and mobile applications while transitioning into TypeScript and UI design with Figma. His career blends hands-on engineering and leadership across finance and communications domains, with prior senior roles at Eagle Communications and frontend work for UnhedgedApp. Based in Hays, Kansas, Garrett pairs practical networking and IT foundations with modern frontend architecture, enabling pragmatic decisions that balance developer velocity and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Barton Community CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Fort Hays State University
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Github Skills (39)
router8
gulp7
react7
nodejs6
declarative6
autocomplete6
monaco-editor6
javascript6
react-native6
listener5
eleventy4
sass4
google-ad-manager4
campfire4
static-site4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garrettbland/lazy-load-images
Jun 2021 - Jan 2024
11ty plugin that adds lazy loading attribute to images
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
garrettbland/garrettbland.com
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Garretts site
Contributions:92 commits, 2 PRs, 97 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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