Paul Kirby
Developer Co-Founder at The AntiMedia LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Kirby is a Developer Co-Founder and multidisciplinary engineer blending 11 years of hands-on web development, audio production, and IT support experience from Chicago. A Michigan Tech graduate in Audio Production with minors in Computer Science and Music Composition, he runs Underground Web Lab and serves as webmaster for multiple clients, owning analytics, SEO, hosting, and front-end work. He also provides remote post-production and acoustic consulting, and has contributed meaningful front-end improvements to popular open-source React components like react-responsive-carousel. Comfortable across multiple programming languages and DAWs, Paul pairs creative composition skills with pragmatic engineering to solve cross-disciplinary problems. Outside work he mixes installation art, climbing, and music—an approach that informs his user-centered, performance-minded technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Audio Production & Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Audio Production & Technology at Michigan Technological University
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
react-components10
animation10
embla-carousel10
vue-carousel10
bootstrap-carousel10
react-component10
slick-carousel10
infinite-carousel10
owl-carousel10
sliders10
carousel-slider10
react10
swipe-gestures9
typescript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
leandrowd/react-responsive-carousel
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
React.js Responsive Carousel (with Swipe)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Paul primarily worked on refactoring and enhancing the React carousel component. Their contributions include adding state management for previous and selected items, as well as refactoring the animation handling to be more modular. The user also implemented a fade transition animation and updated the component's types and testing structure. The changes focused on improving the component's structure and animation capabilities.
react-componentreactautoplaysliderswipe
prkirby/pts-sandbox
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:73 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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