Ray Villalobos
Contract Instructor Teacher at Stanford University
DeLand, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRay Villalobos is a seasoned instructor and full‑stack developer with 13+ years of experience crafting hands‑on curriculum and building production-grade front-end projects in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Python. He’s authored 140+ courses—including over 30 on AI—that have reached nearly 3 million learners and pioneered GitHub Codespaces-based training used for certification and large-scale developer upskilling. Ray blends multimedia and newsroom roots with advanced AI-enabled development and agentic workflow instruction, teaching practical, repeatable labs used at Stanford Extension and across enterprise teams. An engaging speaker and LinkedIn Top Voice, he pairs curriculum design with active open-source teaching repos (Angular, React, Sass, Bootstrap) that demonstrate his emphasis on UI-driven, scenario-based learning. Notably, his work with GitHub to integrate repositories into learning pipelines helped scale interactive course delivery and real-world coding practice.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at Santa Fe CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Information & Communications Technology, 3.95, Master of Science (M.S.), Information & Communications Technology, 3.95 at University of DenverBachelor's in Journalism, Advertising & Public Relations, Bachelor's in Journalism, Advertising & Public Relations at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (35)
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javascript10
bootstrap10
ui-components10
css10
user-manual10
sass10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
component-kit10
tailwindcss10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
LinkedInLearning/hands-on-react-2508422
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
This is a LinkedIn Learning repo for Hands-On React.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ray primarily focused on developing the user interface for the Hands-on React project. Their commits show the creation and modification of React components, including the `App` component, as well as adjustments to the `index.html` and `src/main.jsx` files to integrate the React application. They incorporated styling elements and event handlers to build interactive components, demonstrating a clear emphasis on user interface development. They also updated the project to use a supporting CSS framework and refactored the code to utilize React hooks, further indicating a focus on front-end development.
linkedinreact
planetoftheweb/bootstrap4
Jan 2017 - May 2021
Repository for my tutorial course: Bootstrap 4 Essential Training on LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1846 commits, 13 PRs, 1638 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ray's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying the user interface of a Bootstrap 4 tutorial course. They added basic typography, blockquotes, and lists, along with color and image content. The commits consistently modify the `index.html` file, indicating a focus on the structure and presentation of the tutorial's content using Bootstrap's classes and components. They have consistently used bootstrap's layout components like card and media.
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