Vernon Mensah
Senior Software Engineer at Collage Group
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVernon Mensah is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable web and mobile applications, currently focused at Collage Group after a track record of startup and fintech roles. He specializes in React, React Native, Next.js and TypeScript, and has expanded into backend work with GraphQL, Node/Express, and both MongoDB and Postgres to ship full-stack features. Vernon has repeatedly improved team delivery—introducing Prettier to halve PR feedback, adding unit tests for payment flows, and creating onboarding and on-call docs to reduce friction. His product work includes reducing invoice creation time by 100% and delivering a CRM adopted by thousands of contractors, showing an ability to combine UX sensitivity with measurable business impact. Based in Alexandria, VA, he pairs hands-on coding with a collaborative “help wherever I can” mindset and a love of rock climbing that fuels his problem-solving persistence.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Prince George's Community CollegeEngineering Immersion, Engineering Immersion at Thinkful
Github Skills (16)
webcam8
javascript6
react5
content-editor5
froala4
typescript4
wysiwyg4
material-ui3
editor3
rich-text-editor3
storybook3
event-data3
html-editor3
nodejs2
component-library1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Alderr/portfolio
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
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Contributions:6 PRs, 39 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
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Alderr/mailbox-frontend
Jan 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:7 PRs, 57 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 4 months
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