Tj Carskadon
Software Engineer at italist.com
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTj Carskadon is a results-driven software engineer with 10 years of professional experience, currently building scalable features at Yelp and working full-stack across React, Node.js, Python, and PHP for italist.com. He brings a maker’s mindset from a varied career that includes product development and international operations leadership in consumer goods, which informs his pragmatic approach to shipping product-focused engineering. Comfortable prototyping new tech and improving internal processes, he pairs strong collaboration with Product and Management to define and execute growth strategies. A former instructor at Hack Reactor, he also has hands-on experience helping developers level up on algorithms and interview readiness. Based in Oakland, he combines creative problem solving (rooted in a B.S. in Music Engineering) with disciplined engineering practices to deliver exceptional user experiences. Notably, his background leading hardware and toy product engineering gives him an unusual perspective on end-to-end product design and manufacturability in software projects.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program at Hack ReactorB.S. Music Engineering, B.S. Music Engineering at University of Colorado Denver
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
editor9
vscode9
vscode-extension9
vim-mode-plus9
microsoft9
electron9
typescript9
visual-studio-code9
visual-studio8
camelcase6
todoist6
zeal6
statusline5
vim4
neovim4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SerendipitousTypo/news
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:101 commits, 36 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
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