Jesse Buchanan
Senior Full Stack Developer, Developer Acceleration
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Buchanan is a Senior Full Stack Developer with 11 years of experience specializing in developer acceleration, continuous delivery, test automation, and application security. Based in Toronto, he currently owns CircleCI pipelines that enable 50+ daily deployments and focuses on reducing toil by automating error-prone tasks and introducing SDLC guardrails. He has led front-end teams, mentored engineers in modern JavaScript and testing practices, and drove migrations from Rails to Node/Postgres while implementing GraphQL and CI/CD on AWS. An active contributor to high-profile front-end projects, Jesse improved testing infrastructure on react-boilerplate by modernizing test tooling and coverage. He combines hands-on coding and devops craft with a pragmatic security mindset that keeps compliance from becoming a bottleneck for developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
react-boilerplate10
javascript10
testing10
chai10
enzyme10
react10
k10
webpack9
webpacker9
firefox9
mochajs9
styled-components8
redux8
iis6
asp-net6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate
Jan 2016 - May 2016
🔥 A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 PRs, 45 comments, 12 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on configuring and improving the testing infrastructure for the project. They updated the testing environment by switching from rewire to babel-plugin-rewire. They worked on initial setup and configuration of Karma and Chrome for testing. The user also made changes to test files and refactored testing dependencies, including incorporating chai-enzyme and isparta for code coverage.
redux-sagawebpack4react-routerreactjsfire
TouchBistro/typiql
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
referencingtypescriptgraphql-jsgraphql
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