Marques Woodson
Senior Software Engineer at Chicago Software Geeks, Inc
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMarques Woodson is a senior software engineer and founder with about 12–15 years of experience, currently driving front-end architecture and delivery at Affirm while running a consulting shop focused on Shopify and custom web apps. He specializes in component-driven client-side engineering—an early React adopter who has also contributed enhancements to the widely used MUI (Material UI) React component library. Marques combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, shaping engineering culture and scalable UI systems at companies from startups like project44 and Uptake to enterprise teams at Sears and United Airlines. He’s passionate about continuous learning across CI/CD, frameworks and paradigms, and spends spare moments producing Pluralsight content and technical media. Based in Chicago, he brings an engineer’s discipline from an Industrial Engineering background to building performant, maintainable front ends that improve developer velocity and user experience.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (16)
material-design10
javascript10
react-components10
react10
react-component10
system-design9
system9
lessc9
e2e-testing6
ios6
hook6
react-native6
webpack6
geolocation6
angularjs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Marques contributed primarily to the React-based UI component library, making enhancements to existing components. Their work focused on adding new properties and functionality to components like `Input`, `Checkbox`, `RadioButton`, and `Toggle`. This included adding propTypes for component properties and implementing UI changes to improve usability, such as adding labels and adjusting label positioning.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
mwq27/React-Sandbox
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 1 month
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