Paul Briar
Frontend Developer Team Lead at Grain Discovery
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolPaul Briar is a Frontend Developer Team Lead with eight years of experience building and evolving user-focused web marketplaces and PWAs, currently driving a Next.js rewrite and mentoring cross-functional teams at Grain Discovery. Based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, he specializes in React, TypeScript, Redux and front-end architecture, pairing hands-on coding with product-minded leadership to deliver maintainable, production-grade interfaces. His background spans agency and in-house roles supporting major brands and internal digital platforms, and he brings practical ops experience from earlier technology and customer-facing roles. A father and husband, Paul blends steady people management with a pragmatic engineering approach, often stepping into adjacent areas like Flutter coaching and digital marketing to unblock projects.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Business/Commerce, Business/Commerce at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
open-source10
git9
github9
patch7
python7
passportjs5
subversion5
mongoose5
expressjs4
ejs4
contentful3
gatsbyjs3
mongodb3
nodejs-server3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PaulBriar/PassportJS-Setup
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
PassportJS Setup for future projects - Built with Nodejs, Express, MongoDB & Mongoose,
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
passportjsejsexpressjsexpress-mongodbexpress
PaulBriar/RoboFriends
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Simple React.js App to show styling options - CRA, Redux, Redux-Thunk & Tachyons
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactredux-thunkreducerredux-formcra
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