Will Gutierrez is a freelance web developer and software engineer based in Oakland with nine years of hands-on experience building user-focused web applications. He specializes in front-end development, having contributed React components, rich-text editor features, and improved image uploads for Public Lab’s collaborative Rails platform. Will also developed a Lexical DevTools browser extension, integrating editor state visualization and modernizing its build with Vite, showing strength in tool-building for complex text editors. Comfortable across the full stack thanks to a freeCodeCamp full-stack certificate, he pairs practical engineering with a thoughtful, user-experience-driven approach. His background in comparative studies from Stanford adds an uncommon perspective on accessibility and inclusive product design. An active open-source contributor, he favors impactful UX improvements that make platforms easier for first-time contributors and end users alike.
9 years of coding experience
Full Stack Web Developer Certificate, Full Stack Web Developer Certificate at freeCodeCamp
Bachelor's Degree, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Bachelor's Degree, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:222 reviews, 92 commits, 145 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Public Lab platform by implementing and testing features within the comment editor. They focused on building React components, integrating rich-text capabilities, and enhancing image upload functionality. Additionally, the user performed testing across multiple areas of the platform, including core functionality and user interface components. The changes made were crucial for improving the user experience.
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:35 reviews, 11 commits, 20 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on developing a browser extension for the Lexical text editor framework, contributing to the Lexical DevTools. Their work involved creating the scaffold for the extension, integrating it with the existing Lexical project, and displaying editor state changes within a React-based UI. The user also updated the extension's build process using Vite and refactored the project structure, demonstrating front-end development skills within a complex text-editing environment.
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Will Gutierrez - Freelance Web Developer at Self Employed