Robert Helms
Staff Software Engineer, Web Lead at Pocket Prep
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Helms is a Staff Software Engineer and Web Lead in Durham, NC with nine years of experience building and scaling web products, currently leading web engineering at Pocket Prep. He progressed through successive engineering and lead roles at Pocket Prep after earlier hands-on full-stack work with AT&T and consultancy experience at Smashing Boxes. A physics graduate from Duke who retrained in front-end development, he blends analytical rigor with practical UI and backend engineering, shipping features across the stack. He contributes to DefinitelyTyped, improving TypeScript typings for the popular Parse JavaScript SDK to enhance developer experience and type safety. Known for mentoring teams and driving web architecture decisions, he brings a teacher’s clarity from a prior career in secondary education to technical leadership. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refinements that reduce friction for developers while maintaining product velocity.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Duke UniversityFront End Development - HTML CSS Javascript, Front End Development - HTML CSS Javascript at The Iron Yard Durham
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the type definitions for the Parse JavaScript SDK. Their work involved enhancing the type safety of core Parse objects and methods, improving constructor handling, and fixing various linting issues within the type definition files. They refactored and improved the type definitions for `Parse.Cloud.run` and `Parse.Cloud.define`, made improvements to `Parse.Object.toJSON` and static methods, and fixed typos. Their contributions directly improved the developer experience for those using Parse.js with TypeScript.
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rdhelms/quest-mix-ui
Sep 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
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