Steve Mcguire
Founder at Naming Stuff Is Hard
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Mcguire is a founder and self-taught generalist with 11 years of experience building web technologies, rapid prototypes, and automation systems from concept to production. Formerly a Senior UI Engineer at Netflix, he contributed to reliability and testing of high-profile open-source projects such as Netflix/falcor, bringing a pragmatic attention to edge cases and data integrity. He balances front-end and back-end fluency with low-level experimentation—currently building a C++ game engine and previously implementing an OpenCL neural network—while also dabbling in hardware automation like Arduino-controlled beer fermenters. Based in Brookline, MA, he excels at turning fuzzy requirements into practical architectures and shipping dependable tooling quickly.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
General, General at Mesa Community College
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
fetcher10
nodejs10
javascript10
fetchr10
fetch10
test-automation10
testing10
macos9
cross-browser6
java6
mochajs6
package-manager6
npm6
requirejs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/falcor
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:108 commits, 25 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Steve contributed to the `netflix/falcor` repository by focusing on testing and improving the core functionality of the data fetching library. Their commits included null checks for error handling, and test implementations for various scenarios, particularly related to data source interactions and references. The user also added tests to address missing value cases and ensure correct JSON output behavior. Their work appears focused on improving the reliability and robustness of the library.
javascript-libraryjavascriptfetchingfetchdata-fetching
steveorsomethin/react-immutable
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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