Stokes Player
Lead Engineer, Component Testing at Cypress.io
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolStokes Player is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling products across education, healthcare, HR, nonprofit, and defense sectors. He blends hands-on full‑stack expertise—from SPAs and database design to AWS infrastructure—with strong technical leadership, having grown teams, introduced UX practices, and delivered mission‑critical integrations. Comfortable switching between management and IC roles, he has driven performance optimizations and introduced AI features at Cypress, including work on the well‑known Cypress testing project and an internal LLM evaluation tool. Known for relentless root‑cause troubleshooting and a commitment to lifelong learning, he mentors engineers, runs training, and standardizes processes to improve team clarity and delivery. Based in Mount Pleasant, SC, he brings a pragmatic balance of architecture-level thinking and boots‑on‑the‑ground execution, often surfacing subtle productivity gains across tooling and pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Clemson University
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
cypress10
typescript10
test-framework10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
testing9
ui-testing8
mstest8
qtest8
vue8
component-testing8
vstest8
angularjs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cypress-io/cypress
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 340 reviews, 64 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Stokes's commits primarily focus on enhancing and testing the Cypress front-end application. They implemented new features in the UI, particularly related to the debug page and Cypress Cloud integration, including showing running builds and passing cohort information. The user also wrote and modified end-to-end tests, including tests for the debug page and spec list. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the Cypress framework and front-end development practices.
waittest-runnertesting-toolse2e-testsend-to-end-testing
warrensplayer/warrensplayer.github.io
Apr 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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