Vincent Taverna
Staff Engineer at Pointhound
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVincent Taverna is a Staff Engineer in New York with 14 years building full-stack systems and a strong focus on Ruby, Elixir, JavaScript, and SQL. He has progressed through senior and staff roles at companies including SeatGeek, Feather, and Life Biosciences, and now drives engineering at Pointhound. A pragmatic front-end tinkerer as well as backend contributor, Vincent has improved docs and UI in notable open-source projects like Immutable.js and IOTA’s Trinity wallet. He combines production-grade system design with hands-on UI polish and a long personal history in open source ("open sauce since 1991"), reflecting both deep experience and taste for practical, cost-conscious solutions—recently concentrating on cheap flight deals.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Suffolk County Community CollegePolytechnic Institute of New York University
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Github Skills (15)
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
immutablejs10
internationalization9
i18next9
localization9
lessc9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
documentation7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
iotaledger/trinity-wallet
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Trinity is IOTA's old, deprecated wallet. Use Firefly instead.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:186 commits, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent's contributions primarily focused on front-end development within the Trinity wallet project. Their work involved modifying UI components, including layout elements and UI interactions for entering seed, as well as refactoring various front-end components and styles. The user also made changes to image assets and internationalization files.
blockchainwalletcryptocurrencyfireflyiota
immutable-js/immutable-js
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily addressed UI-related issues within the documentation pages. Their commits focused on fixing layout problems, such as footer and sidebar positioning, and adding a missing colon in the style. Additionally, they implemented an alias for removing elements in the map functionalities and updated the type definitions to reflect these code changes. This suggests a focus on improving the user interface and enhancing the documentation's functionality within the Immutable.js project.
persistent-datastatelessdata-exchangeimmutablejsfunctional-programming
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