Sequoia Mcdowell
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSequoia Mcdowell is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building and leading web engineering teams, currently at Uber in Toronto. They combine hands-on front-end and full-stack development with technical leadership, having driven major overhauls of Angular.js applications, performance optimizations, and developer tooling that measurably increased delivery speed and developer productivity. As founder of 34ks Technology they consulted for clients like Pfizer, IBM, and O’Reilly—delivering trainings, architecture audits, and production systems that cut costs and accelerated feature delivery. An active open-source contributor, Sequoia has improved documentation and UI/UX on notable projects like LoopBack’s site and Addy Osmani’s JavaScript patterns repo, demonstrating attention to developer experience. Known for clear communication and structured mentorship, they pair pragmatic engineering with a knack for turning complex technical debt into prioritized business value.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Web Technologies, AAS, Web Technologies at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
javascript10
bootstra10
front-end-development10
jquery10
bootstrap10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
github8
underscorejs6
underscore6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
loopbackio/loopback.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
LoopBack project site - now with documentation!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 15 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sequoia primarily focused on front-end development, refactoring the documentation site's user interface. They replaced the existing navigation system with a Bootstrap and jQuery implementation. The user also updated the sidebar, making it more flexible and allowing for multiple levels of nested menu items. Further contributions included styling enhancements, and fixes for dropdown menus and top navigation, improving the site's overall visual presentation.
loopback
addyosmani/essential-js-design-patterns
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Repo for my 'Learning JavaScript Design Patterns' book
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sequoia contributed to the "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns" book by addressing code-related issues and typos within the HTML and JavaScript code examples. Their work involved correcting HTML element mismatches, removing unnecessary code, and fixing minor grammatical errors, all of which improved the clarity and accuracy of the content. These changes primarily focused on the book's examples, improving the developer's understanding of the design patterns being taught. The commits specifically touched on front-end related code using JavaScript, suggesting a focus on the example code's proper functioning.
design-patternsjavascript
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