Melchert Van Londen
Founder at Develop Health
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolMelchert Van Londen is a founder and product leader with 12 years of experience building pragmatic, tech-driven solutions that simplify organizational complexity. Based in Menlo Park, he has shifted from hands-on engineering and design at IDEO and ActiveViam to VP of Product at Canvas Medical and now builds healthcare infrastructure at Develop Health. He combines a neurobiology background with strong product and engineering chops—having programmatically analyzed alligator auditory footage at the University of Maryland and prototyped storytelling platforms for the US State Department. An active open-source maintainer, he leads the primary Python GraphQL implementation, Graphene, and has contributed bug fixes and tests to graphene-django. Known for turning messy processes into clean, testable systems, he blends curiosity-driven research with product pragmatism to ship over eighty applications and libraries.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Science - BS, Neurobiology and Physiology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Neurobiology and Physiology at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (14)
graphql10
python10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
graphene10
django10
testing9
dependency-management8
heroku6
cors6
restify6
nodejs6
google-cloud-functions6
sendgrid6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-python/graphene-django
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Build powerful, efficient, and flexible GraphQL APIs with seamless Django integration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 19 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Melchert contributed to the `graphene-django` library by fixing bugs related to form mutations, particularly with boolean fields. They also updated the version number and made code changes to include reverse relation one-to-one query tests and debug queries. Furthermore, they modified the dependencies in the `setup.py` file, pinning a higher version of graphene to align with the proper `graphql-core` version.
djangographql-apigraphenepythongraphql
mvanlonden/react-selection-popover
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017
A medium like popover menu for selected text (no longer maintained)
Contributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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