Vaz Allen
Enderby, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolVaz Allen is a pragmatic full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience building and shipping web applications, integrations, and e-commerce systems for agencies and startups. He has led development teams, owned delivery and scope as a senior dev and sales engineer, and created automation tooling to streamline project on-boarding and deployments. An experienced mentor who taught hundreds of bootcamp students, Vaz emphasizes reasoning, debugging, and growth mindset over handing out answers, and adapts guidance to each mentee’s knowledge and emotional state. His background spans Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, API and ERP/CRM integrations, and DevOps work—plus hands-on problem solving with video and ffmpeg early in his career. Vaz is drawn to functional programming and the math behind code, and seeks roles offering agency, challenge, and a collaborative, pragmatic culture.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of New Brunswick
Japanese, French, English
Stackoverflow
678reputation
299kreached
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
nodejs10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
objective-c6
linux6
awk6
android6
adb6
ruby6
authorization6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
lighthouse-labs/tweeter
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
A twitter clone project, to help students gain front-end dev chops. Starter (incomplete) code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vaz focused on modifying the backend structure of a Twitter clone project. They refactored the `tweet-data` module, renaming it to `data-helpers` and consolidating database interactions. Additionally, the user introduced a delay mechanism using `simulateDelay` to mimic network operations. These changes facilitated an easier transition to a MongoDB database and improved code organization.
frontendtwitter
vaz/dotfiles
Oct 2011 - Oct 2019
Contributions:277 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 2 months
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