Tanjie Mcmeans
Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTanjie Mcmeans is a full-stack software engineer with nine years of professional experience and a focus on front-end and data engineering, currently completing an MCS at UIUC. They have shipped production web features at organizations like Artsy—contributing React components and UI fixes to the high-profile artsy.net codebase—and previously built full-stack products at Democracy Works and Octave. Comfortable across the stack, Tanjie blends engineering rigor with design-minded attention to user-facing details thanks to a background in front-end development and liberal arts studies in English and Art History. Known for clean component work and test-driven front-end contributions, they bring pragmatic problem-solving and a keen eye for UX polish to data-informed applications.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, Liberal Arts, Associate of Arts, Liberal Arts at Bard CollegeBachelor of Arts, English and Art History, Bachelor of Arts, English and Art History at Kalamazoo CollegeFront End Web Development, Software Engineering, Front End Web Development, Software Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignMCS, Computer Science, MCS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
artoo9
jestjs9
javascript9
expressjs6
html5
css5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
artsy/force
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The Artsy.net website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:128 reviews, 177 commits, 118 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tanjie primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Artsy.net website, as evidenced by their commits related to React components and Jest tests. They updated header components, cleaned up files, and added new components for the MarketingLandingApp, Consign app, and About app. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to styles and layout, demonstrating a focus on UI enhancements and fixing minor visual issues.
reactjavascriptartsyexpress-jsgraphql
TMcMeans/cortex
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
The main Octave repo
Contributions:148 pushes, 80 branches in 4 months
javascriptreactoctave
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