Joel Shinness
Principal Consultant at Joel Shinness Solutions
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJoel Shinness is a Principal Consultant and seasoned full-stack web developer with nine years of professional experience building delightful user experiences using JavaScript, React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS and automation-driven solutions. He has moved between senior engineering roles at companies like Unity, thatgamecompany, lululemon and Arc'teryx before launching his consultancy to deliver bespoke web, automation and AI solutions. As a former web development instructor at Lighthouse Labs, he pairs hands-on coding with a talent for mentoring and improving code quality—evident in his contributions to test suites for promise-based JavaScript workflows. His background in computer games and avionics testing gives him a pragmatic systems mindset and an eye for robust, testable interfaces. Based in Coquitlam, BC, Joel balances product-focused frontend craftsmanship with backend reliability and practical automation. He brings a mix of creative problem solving and disciplined engineering that helps teams ship production-ready experiences faster.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
mochajs10
javascript10
es6-promise10
testing10
css6
webkit6
css-animations6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lighthouse-labs/promises-exercises
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Set of exercises in using JS promises for handling asynchronous operations.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the testing aspect of the project. They added and modified tests for promise resolution, rejection, and promise constructor behavior. They also implemented tests for the .then and .catch methods, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the correct functionality of promise-based operations. The user's work improved the test suite, increasing confidence in the correctness of the asynchronous code.
asynchronouscallbacksasync-awaitjavascriptjs-promises
JoelCodes/joelcodes.github.io
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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