Ross Esmond
Freelance Full-Stack Developer at Toptal Developers
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Esmond is a Freelance Full-Stack Developer with a decade of experience building web applications, largely in medical informatics where he created internal dev tools, client-facing products, and custom interfaces for medical ontologies. Comfortable across .NET and modern JavaScript stacks, he has led teams, introduced version control and dev-ops practices, and implemented parsers, compilers, and code-generators for domain-specific languages. As a Toptal freelancer since 2020, he combines hands-on front-end work—contributing UI improvements to notable projects like motion-canvas—with backend and cloud infrastructure management. Currently finishing a BS in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, he pairs rigorous analytical training with practical software craftsmanship and a continuous drive to learn the entire stack.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Minnesota
English
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
visualizations9
ui-design9
animation9
visualization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
motion-canvas/motion-canvas
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Visualize Your Ideas With Code
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 20 commits, 3 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ross primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, focusing on improving code rendering and UI components. They addressed issues related to code highlighting by integrating PrismJS and resolving font rendering problems. Furthermore, the user implemented and refactored components like the `CodeBlock`, introduced new UI elements, and added features like color space and file type options, enhancing the overall user experience and visual fidelity of the application.
animationpresentationvisualization
Ross-Esmond/roslyn
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 3 months
roslyncompilersdotnetcompilervisual-basic
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