Swizec Teller
Tech Lead Manager at Plasmidsaurus
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSwizec Teller is a tech lead manager and hands-on software engineer with 17 years of experience building web and mobile products from startup prototypes to production systems in San Francisco. He blends engineering leadership with product-minded execution, having led migrations to React, introduced SRE and observability practices, and built pricing and billing engines that enabled bespoke sales workflows. An author and speaker of several books and courses on React, D3, and serverless patterns, he also contributes to notable open-source projects like jsdom and React Native examples. At Plasmidsaurus and Tia he drove technical transformations that improved iteration speed, increased user activation and conversions, and embedded scientific visualizations across marketing and customer experiences. Comfortable across the full stack, distributed systems, and data visualization, he’s equally at home writing a useAuth hook as designing distributed background workers. Please include a 🍌 emoji when reaching out.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of LjubljanaComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer Science
English, Slovenian, German
Stackoverflow
2,322reputation
148kreached
55answers
7questions
google-app-engine
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Github Skills (39)
editors10
objective-c10
caching10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
react-hooks10
text-editor10
testing10
rspec10
user-authentication10
authentication10
indentation10
capybara10
editor10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
shoutem/school
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
A new React Native app every 2 weeks. With tutorial :)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:156 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Contributions summary:Swizec primarily focused on the development of a React Native application within the `shoutem/school` repository. Their work involved integrating various React Native libraries to build a mobile application, including libraries for mapping, vector icons, linear gradients, and React Native video. The user was also responsible for implementing UI components, including the overall app structure, as well as features such as the ability to take a picture with a camera.
react-nativenative-appreactreact-native-app
Swizec/useAuth
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
The simplest way to add authentication to your React app. Supports various providers.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 362 commits, 106 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Swizec's commits indicate the development of authentication features within a React application. They implemented a useAuth hook for easy integration and an AuthConfig component. Their work touched front-end code for login and logout functionality, and they also updated the Gatsby example project. The changes involved setting up the AuthProvider to support authentication using Auth0.
gatsbyreactsimplestauthenticationproviders
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