Vince Devendra
Staff Software Engineer at Wistia
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVince Devendra is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and React. Based in Pittsburgh, he has led backend and API design efforts and served as a technical lead and mentor at Wistia, guiding a six-engineer team and driving high-value engineering work. He has deep experience designing GraphQL schemas and integrating Apollo Client with Rails/graphql-ruby, alongside maintaining RESTful APIs and ETL pipelines in production. Vince brings a rare humanities-informed perspective from a philosophy MA, which shows up in careful API contracts, clear documentation, and thoughtful code reviews. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, well-structured solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy, Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy at Boston CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Latin, Greek
Github Skills (47)
ruby-wrapper10
bootstrap9
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
rails-app9
messaging-api9
firebase-cloud-messaging9
html9
activerecord8
caching-proxy8
ruby-on-rails8
firebase8
hosting8
api8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vincedevendra/myflix
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:40 PRs, 61 pushes, 16 branches in 2 months
vincedevendra/firebase_cloud_messenger
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
A ruby wrapper for Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging API
Contributions:45 commits, 17 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ruby-wrapperapigooglefirebaseruby
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