Patrick Bacon-blaber
Engineering Manager at Tasting Grounds
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Bacon-blaber is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading full-stack teams and shipping product-focused software, currently based in Ann Arbor. He grew through hands-on roles at Virtru—from senior full-stack engineer to staff engineer and now engineering manager—demonstrating a steady trajectory into technical leadership. Patrick combines product-minded engineering with front-end craftsmanship, evident in open-source work modernizing and animating a fast social share component and adding features like collision detection and new social channels. As co-founder of Tasting Grounds, he brings entrepreneurial experience alongside enterprise development at UBS, blending startup grit with regulated-industry discipline. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Bucknell and is known for translating legacy code into modern, maintainable ES6 implementations while keeping UX front of mind.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Bucknell UniversityStuyvesant High School
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Github Skills (15)
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
coffeescript9
css9
animation8
fork6
heroku6
html6
capistrano6
ios6
interprocess-communication6
javascript6
shared-memory6
forms6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carrot/share-button
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
:warning: :warning: Currently Unmaintained :warning: :warning: - fast, beautiful, and painless social shares:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 27 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on converting CoffeeScript code to ES6, indicating a focus on modernizing the codebase. They made significant changes to the `ShareButton.js` file, which likely involved refactoring and updating the core functionality of the share button component. Further contributions include adding collision detection to the share button, the addition of new social media buttons (LinkedIn and Whatsapp), and implementing animations. These changes suggest a focus on improving the UI and user experience.
painlesssocial-sharesshares
pablaber/peloton-client-node
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Node client library for the Peloton API
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
apipelotonclient-librarynodejsnode-client
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