Vinnie Olsen
Senior Software Engineer at Codecademy
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolVinnie Olsen is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building user-facing web applications and APIs, currently shaping learning products at Codecademy. He specializes in modern JavaScript ecosystems—React (v16+), TypeScript, ES6+, and robust testing with Jest, React Testing Library and Cypress—while retaining strong backend chops in Java, NodeJS, GraphQL and databases like MySQL and MongoDB. Vinnie has a proven track record shipping production features at scale for publishers (The Washington Post/Arc XP) and consulting clients, often working remotely and bridging design-minded UI/UX implementation with backend integrations. He brings a practical blend of legacy Angular/AngularJS experience and modern front-end tooling (SCSS, PostCSS, Webpack, ESLint), enabling smooth migrations and incremental improvements. A solid academic foundation in Information Systems (BS, Central Michigan University, 3.62 GPA) and early hands-on roles from internship to mentor-level engineer hint at his long-standing curiosity and propensity for ownership.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Information Systems & Information Technology (Software Development Concentration), Major & Minor GPA: 3.82; Cumulative GPA: 3.62, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Information Systems & Information Technology (Software Development Concentration), Major & Minor GPA: 3.82; Cumulative GPA: 3.62 at Central Michigan University
Github Skills (5)
react8
fusion7
frontend6
typescript5
storybook3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vinnie-olsen/code-test-mbx
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
vinnie-olsen/personal-website
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 push in 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.