Kevin Cunningham
Software Engineer
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarKevin Cunningham is a software engineer based in Northern Ireland with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable web applications and integrations. He contributes to notable open-source projects, improving front-end shopping cart UX and test coverage for a Stripe-focused library and integrating WPGraphQL with Next.js to bring WordPress content into modern static frontends. Comfortable across full-stack tasks, he blends practical testing, refactoring, and GraphQL/Apollo work to make components clearer and more maintainable. Known for pragmatic improvements rather than flashy rewrites, he focuses on reliability and developer experience to help projects scale.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
wordpress10
nextjs10
user-interface10
wpgraphql10
testing-library10
react-testing-library10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
jtest10
graphql10
testing-library-react10
react10
jsx9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
📝 Bring WordPress to the static world with Next.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the implementation of a WordPress-based Next.js starter project, adding components to display WordPress posts within the Next.js frontend. Their work involved integrating Apollo Client for GraphQL queries to fetch data from a WordPress backend, specifically using the WPGraphQL plugin. They also introduced a new page to display data via GraphQL and modified existing components to accommodate these changes. Further commits show adaptation and modifications of the existing code.
next-jsnext-starterreactwordpresswpgraphql
dayhaysoos/use-shopping-cart
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Shopping cart state and logic for Stripe
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 23 days
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the testing and improvement of a shopping cart component. Their work involved adding tests for various functionalities, including adding, deleting, and modifying item quantities within the cart. The user refactored code for clarity, introducing methods like `reduceItemByOne` and implementing features related to displaying and managing the cart's visibility. These contributions focused on enhancing the component's reliability and user experience.
shoppingstripeecommerceshopping-cartlogic
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