Leithon English
Senior Software Engineer, Front End at hims & hers
Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica
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Top SchoolLeithon English is a Senior Front End Engineer with eight years of experience building user-focused web applications and components, currently driving front-end efforts at hims & hers after senior roles at Gatsby and Medullan. He blends a love of new technologies with respect for proven ideas, enjoying collaborative problem-solving and shipping polished UX. At Gatsby he contributed to the widely used gatsbyjs/gatsby project, improving the Gatsby Cloud preview UI and developer-facing plugin interactions. His background spans government and enterprise systems in Jamaica as well as product-focused teams, giving him a pragmatic perspective on scalability and usability. Leithon is equally comfortable refining UI details like tooltips and build-status indicators as he is shaping larger front-end architectures. He brings a curious, team-oriented approach that turns evolving web platform trends into tangible improvements for users and developers.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Technology, Jamaica
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
gatsby10
react10
css9
html8
asp-net6
nodejs6
entity-framework6
vue6
asp-net-mvc6
typescript6
ajax6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Aug 2021 - May 2022
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 32 commits, 12 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Leithon primarily worked on the `gatsby-plugin-gatsby-cloud` plugin, focusing on the preview UI component. Their contributions included adding and modifying UI elements such as tooltips, buttons, and indicators, enhancing the user experience within the Gatsby Cloud environment. They also made changes to the plugin's build status messages and usability, including updating the styling and interactions of these components. Additionally, the user contributed to the installation of the preview UI.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
leithonenglish/spelling-bee-nextjs
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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