Joss Stancek
Programming Instructor & Curriculum Developer at Best Brains Learning Centers
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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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.
8 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 (43)
zombie10
design-tokens9
vscode-extension9
component-library9
robot9
react9
webcam8
flexbox8
figma-plugin8
typescript8
css8
chartjs8
shopify8
sass7
user-interface7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JossWritesCode/RiffTube
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Toolkit for riffing any video on YouTube
Contributions:156 PRs, 232 pushes, 52 branches in 5 years 6 months
videoyoutube
JossWritesCode/portfolio
Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
portfolio site
Contributions:12 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
react
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