Lev Izraelit
Senior Software Engineer at Branch Care
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLev Izraelit is a product-oriented senior software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building reliable web applications and developer-facing features. He has a strong front-end focus—shipping features in React, Typescript, and GraphQL—while also contributing to backend services in Django and microservice frameworks. At Formsort he led practical product improvements like auto-save and schema enforcement that boosted client retention, and he trains and mentors engineers on modern stacks. His open-source work includes improving link validation in the popular medium-editor project to correctly handle telephone links and adding unit tests, showing attention to UX edge cases and quality. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he pairs hands-on implementation with a knack for simplifying complex requirements into maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Hunter College
English, Hebrew, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
editors10
medium-editor10
javascript10
editor10
rich-text-editor10
contenteditable9
bots6
npm6
azure6
nodejs6
twitter6
typescript6
ts-jest6
jestjs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yabwe/medium-editor
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lev focused on enhancing the anchor functionality within the Medium-Editor, specifically related to link validation. Their contributions involved implementing and testing features that automatically add "tel:" prefixes to telephone numbers entered as links, ensuring proper handling of phone number formats. Furthermore, the user added comprehensive unit tests to verify this behavior and validate the correct application of the link validation setting within the editor. These changes enhanced the editor's capability to handle phone number links effectively.
contenteditableapitext-editingwysiwygjavascript
lizraeli/covid-19-us
Apr 2020 - May 2021
View cases of Covid-19 for the US, by state or by county
Contributions:110 commits, 22 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 1 month
casesreactopensciencecountyedtech
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