Shawn Yates
Senior Frontend Software Engineer at Eventbase
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolShawn Yates is a Senior Frontend Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack applications, primarily using Node.js and React, currently focused on FinTech at Eventbase. He progressed from Software Developer to Senior Frontend Engineer within the same company, demonstrating rapid technical growth and ownership of client-facing interfaces. Prior experience at Finn AI gave him grounded expertise in financial software, while an earlier career in education honed his communication and mentorship skills. Trained at Lighthouse Labs after a BA in Linguistics from UBC, he blends analytical thinking about language with pragmatic web development practices. Based in Victoria, BC, Shawn is known for shipping reliable front-end experiences and translating complex product requirements into maintainable code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics at The University of British ColumbiaWeb Development Bootcamp, Web Development Bootcamp at Lighthouse Labs
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Github Skills (12)
git10
subversion10
github10
patch10
autoplay7
react-component7
keyboard-navigation6
react5
markdown5
responsive4
react-carousel2
mobile2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shawnpyates/MD-Flashcards-UI
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
UI for Flashcards Supporting Markdown
Contributions:69 commits, 12 PRs, 66 pushes in 7 months
markdownflashcardssupporting
shawnpyates/draft-machine
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:147 PRs, 246 pushes, 137 branches in 2 years 6 months
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