Joss Stancek
Programming Instructor & Curriculum Developer at Best Brains Learning Centers
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoss Stancek is a React-focused software engineer and curriculum developer based in Toronto with eight years of experience building user-facing web applications and teaching developers and students. He has shipped merchant-facing features at Shopify and led conversion-boosting projects at Clutch, pairing product-minded front-end engineering with measurable impact. As a programming instructor and curriculum author, he distills complex concepts into hands-on lessons that grow computational thinking and project delivery skills. Comfortable in monorepos and performance/accessibility work, he combines engineering rigor with a knack for translating requirements into teachable, maintainable code. Joss’s background in education and writing informs his clear documentation and lesson-driven approach to onboarding and code reviews. He maintains an active public portfolio (JossWritesCode.com and github.com/JossWritesCodes) that showcases his practical projects and teaching materials.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Front-End Web Developer, Nanodegree, Front-End Web Developer at UdacityFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Lambda SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese
Github Skills (37)
vscode-extension10
html8
react8
webcam8
flexbox8
component-library8
figma-plugin8
css8
chartjs8
design-tokens8
shopify8
react-component7
typescript7
user-interface7
visualization6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JossWritesCode/JossWritesCode
Sep 2020 - May 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
Robot-Versus-Zombies/front-end
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Post zombie apocalypse. You are a makeshift robot built out of a roomba, a webcam, and a few other doodads. You have been sent into a zombie infested mall to collect supplies for the survivors.
Contributions:81 commits, 96 PRs, 131 pushes in 1 year 9 months
webcam
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