Rick Mcgavin
Senior Software Engineer, Frontend at Loyal
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRick Mcgavin is a Senior Frontend Engineer in Charlotte with 10 years of experience building user-focused web applications using React, Next.js, Apollo/GraphQL, and TypeScript. He led a JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration for a legacy product and has driven frontend architecture, reusable component libraries, and CI-driven quality improvements across multiple teams. A former customer service operations and service delivery manager, he brings strong client-facing experience and process discipline to engineering, helping bridge product goals and operational realities. Rick mentors mid-level engineers, advocates tooling like ESLint and pre-commit checks, and has streamlined delivery with pull request preview environments. He enjoys turning UI pain points he first noticed in customer-facing roles into scalable, maintainable interfaces and is always open to discussing interesting challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature, General, English Language and Literature, General at Penn State UniversityFront End Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Front End Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
multiselect10
css10
census10
math10
autosuggest10
react-modal10
nodejs10
react10
linux9
codebase9
autocomplete9
editable9
dropdown9
combobox9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rickMcGavin/react_weather
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
weather app from Stephen Grider's course
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
flutterweather-app
rickMcGavin/social-cards
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
A small React project loading social cards with the Random User API
Contributions:19 PRs, 7 pushes, 17 issues in 3 years 3 months
social-networkapireactreact-projectsocial-cards
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