Wayland Woodruff
Front End Lead at Kahuna Workforce Solutions
Stafford, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayland Woodruff is a Front End Lead with 12 years of experience crafting performant, user-centered web applications that prioritize reducing friction as much as adding features. He excels in modern JavaScript ecosystems—Angular, React, TypeScript, NodeJS—and has led client-side standards, mentoring, and refactoring efforts that measurably improved load times and developer velocity at companies like Bill.com and Kahuna. His work spans SaaS platforms, data democratization, and embedded UI for fitness and aerospace projects, showing a rare blend of polished UX sensibility and systems thinking. Beyond shipping features, he’s improved operational workflows (e.g., cutting data review times and setup durations) and fosters team culture—having initiated a corporate Toastmasters chapter and run a D&D group to build camaraderie. Based in Stafford, Texas, Wayland pairs pragmatic engineering with a clear focus on delighting end users while reducing their cognitive load.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion, Software Engineering, Certificate of Completion, Software Engineering at Hack ReactorFullerton CollegeMedia Arts and Animation, Media Arts and Animation at The Art Institute of California-Orange County
Github Skills (7)
redux6
react5
dom-element2
javascript2
vanilla-javascript1
dom1
clamp1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
waylandwoodruff/GameStore
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
waylandwoodruff/dnd5e
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
An implementation of the 5th Edition game system for Foundry Virtual Tabletop (http://foundryvtt.com).
Contributions:3 releases, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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