Reese Porter
Senior Software Engineer at Target
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReese Porter is a Senior Software Engineer in Denver with 7 years of experience building distributed systems and application infrastructure, currently shaping virtualized compute at Target. Comfortable across the stack, Reese has shipped high-performance backend components—from database engine work at Molecula to cloud-native RESTful services and ML/time-series tooling at the USPS. A pragmatic contributor to open-source (improving internationalization, tests, and code quality on the ActivityPub-based BookWyrm project), Reese focuses on reliability and maintainability as much as new features. With a linguistics and Spanish background plus a CS minor and international study, Reese brings strong communication skills and a global perspective to complex engineering problems.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
International Exchange Program, International Exchange Program at Universidad Internacional Menéndez PelayoBachelor's degree, Linguistics, Spanish, Computer Science minor, Teaching English as a Second Language Certificate, Bachelor's degree, Linguistics, Spanish, Computer Science minor, Teaching English as a Second Language Certificate at University of Florida
Github Skills (7)
python10
django10
internationalization9
localization9
testing8
activitypub7
google-books6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 14 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Reese primarily focused on improving the codebase's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions include fixing typos and formatting issues, translating strings for internationalization, and adding test cases. Furthermore, they removed unused imports, fixed pylint errors, and implemented a cookie-based solution for saving language preferences. These changes suggest a focus on refining existing features and improving code quality.
social-networkreactpixelfeddecentralizeddiaspora
reesporte/reesporte.github.io
Dec 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:95 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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