James Quick
Developer Educator
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Quick is a Developer Educator and speaker with 11 years of experience helping hundreds of thousands of developers learn modern JavaScript and web tooling. He blends hands-on engineering from roles at FedEx and Microsoft with developer advocacy and leadership across startups and platforms like PlanetScale, Auth0, BigCommerce, Makeswift, and now Cloudflare. Known for clear, accessible teaching, he creates practical learning resources (including a popular quiz app tutorial) and runs the active Learn Build Teach Discord community. Comfortable presenting to technical and non-technical audiences, he pairs curriculum design and keynote experience with product-minded developer experience leadership. Off-hours he coaches community through content and can solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute—evidence of his knack for pattern recognition and rapid problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Spanish, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Spanish at Vanderbilt University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
437reputation
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39answers
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
windows6
xamarin-forms6
xamarin6
construct6
nodejs6
mongodb6
sveltekit6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jamesqquick/Build-A-Quiz-App-With-HTML-CSS-and-JavaScript
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Build a Quiz App with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:James primarily worked on building a quiz application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Their contributions include implementing page navigation, high score functionality, and styling updates. They also focused on the UI, including the creation of a spinning loader and incorporating real values for the score. The changes demonstrate a focus on both functionality and visual presentation of the quiz application.
cssjavascript
jamesqquick/TalkTrack
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
A fun project for speakers looking to track their talks and get feedback from attendees
Contributions:40 commits, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
attendeesjavascriptfeedbackspeakersfun-project
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