Summary
Tariq West is a Full Stack Developer with nine years of experience building web platforms and leading engineering teams, most recently driving product and architecture work at PeopleGrove for higher-education mentoring and community features. He’s comfortable across the stack—Node, Sails, React, Angular—and has led migrations from legacy front-ends to component-driven React systems while extracting microservices from monoliths. Tariq has product and founder experience, having prototyped a marketplace for commercial kitchen space using Python/Django and large-scale data assembly, and has supported CX and enterprise implementations at Deloitte and Razorfish. Based in Washington, D.C., he blends hands-on coding with cross-functional leadership and a pragmatic focus on shipping customer-facing features. Outside of work he balances caregiving for his stroke-paralyzed father with continual tinkering, reading, and writing, a discipline that reflects both empathy and persistence. His language-agnostic curiosity and preference for JavaScript make him a versatile engineer who thrives on transitions and system-level improvements.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program at Hack Reactor
Bachelors, Bachelors at Stanford University