Steven Kane
Designer And Software Engineer at Four south, LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Kane is a designer and software engineer with 13 years of experience building interactive web and game experiences from Chicago. He has led engineering and product efforts at Level Ex—creating medically-focused games for clinicians—and now runs design and engineering work at Four South, blending creative direction with hands-on development. Steven’s background spans startups and scale-ups, from architecting a rich in-browser graphics and animation editor for healthcare to integrating large e-commerce platforms at Groupon. He contributes to developer education through open-source work like a JavaScript promises workshopper, reflecting a commitment to practical, test-driven learning. Comfortable moving between product strategy, team leadership, and full-stack implementation, he brings a rare mix of artistic sensibility and engineering rigor. Expect a pragmatic creator who can prototype rapidly and translate clinical or commercial needs into polished, playable experiences.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
es6-promise10
testing10
nodejs9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stevekane/promise-it-wont-hurt
Dec 2013 - Mar 2017
A Workshopper module that teaches you to use promises in javascript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to a Javascript project focused on learning promises, as suggested by the repository description. Their work involved creating and modifying files for various lessons, including "hello world", "return a promise", "reject a promise", "always async", "throw an error", and "multiple promises". These lessons often included changes to both solution and test files, demonstrating an understanding of promise-based JavaScript and testing methodologies. The user also demonstrated knowledge of the `q` promise library and its functionalities.
workshopperjavascriptpromisesnodejs
stevekane/shades-of-play
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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