Prince Addo
Software Engineer at Capital One
United States
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Top SchoolPrince Addo is a software engineer with five years of hands-on experience building backend systems and contributing to open-source projects, currently on the engineering team at Capital One. A Cum Laude computer science graduate from CUNY College of Staten Island, he has practical experience with Node.js, AWS Lambda, CassandraDB, Snowflake, and modern front-end work in Svelte. His open-source contributions include adding book parsers and providers to the widely used consumet ecosystem, improving content retrieval and pagination for media APIs. He has a track record of shipping production services that handle large customer datasets and has supported academic research software and classroom instruction. Known for tackling tricky backend integrations, he combines a strong foundation in algorithms and mathematics with a penchant for improving developer-facing APIs.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude at City University of New York-College of Staten Island
Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
consumet/api.consumet.org
May 2022 - Aug 2022
A Modern Search Engine API for Anime, Movies/TVShows, Books, Light Novels, Manga, etc.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 16 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Prince primarily focused on backend development, adding and modifying API endpoints for various book-related features. They worked on implementing routes, integrating with external services (like Libgen), and refactoring existing code. The user also made adjustments to the main application file and experimented with different frameworks and libraries. Their contributions indicate a strong focus on the backend architecture and functionality of the API.
comicsmoviesanime-apibooks-apimanga
consumet/consumet.ts
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Nodejs library that provides high-level APIs for obtaining information on various entertainment media such as books, movies, comic books, anime, manga, and so on.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 40 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Prince focused on adding and enhancing book-related functionality to the `consumet/consumet.ts` library. Their primary contributions involved implementing book parsers and providers, specifically for Libgen, and later ZLibrary, allowing the library to retrieve book information. They introduced several models, types, and utility functions, contributing to the structure of the project. They also made additional improvements to the comics provider by fixing a pagination issue.
moviesentertainmentmanganpm-packagehigh-level
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