Tolan T is a versatile software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building inclusive, high-impact web applications for startups and large enterprises. He blends front-end mastery in React/Next.js and TypeScript with back-end Node.js/Ruby on Rails, shipping accessible, WCAG‑compliant experiences and robust testing strategies. An autodidact and philomath who enjoys breaking and hardening large language models, he pairs rigorous engineering with a genuine empathy for users and an appetite for continuous learning. Tolan contributes to open-source accessibility tooling—most notably improving Puppeteer-based test generation in the Spearmint project—reflecting his mission to make the web more equal. He’s equally comfortable architecting analytics platforms at scale and prototyping electron apps, and he brings a refreshingly candid investor’s mindset shaped by many hard-earned lessons.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) && Bachelor of Science (BSBA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) && Bachelor of Science (BSBA) at W.A. Franke Honors College
Summer Language School, Summer Language School at Middlebury College
Bridge Program (Computer Science) Certificate with Distinction, Bridge Program (Computer Science) Certificate with Distinction at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Repeat Section Leader | Code in Place && Admited LDT Masters Candidate 2020, Repeat Section Leader | Code in Place && Admited LDT Masters Candidate 2020 at Stanford University
Testing, simplified. || An inclusive, accessibility-first GUI for generating clean, semantic Javascript tests in only a few clicks of a button.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 42 commits, 2 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Tolan primarily contributed to the development of accessibility testing features within the Spearmint repository. Their work involved creating a user interface for selecting accessibility test types (HTML, React, Puppeteer), integrating a URL input for Puppeteer testing, and updating the application state and actions to accommodate these new features. The user also modified the test generation logic to include Puppeteer integration.
A simpler way to write React tests - zero coding required
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
reactzerojesttestingreact-tests
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