Will Soares
Frontend Developer at Blip.pt
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolWill Soares is a frontend developer with 11 years of experience building user-focused web applications, currently shaping interfaces at Blip.pt. He specializes in React, Node.js, Express and TDD, and has a track record of improving developer tooling and browser compatibility—contributing to the popular bowser project by adding Miui detection and alias support. Will combines hands-on engineering across startups and scale-ups (Indie Campers, Barkyn, bolttech, Codeminer42) with community involvement as an event organizer, writer and occasional speaker. A California State University-East Bay computer science graduate with a 3.7 GPA, he seeks environments that prioritize learning and knowledge sharing to accelerate both technical and personal growth.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.7, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA 3.7 at California State University-East BayBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Centro de Ensino Unificado de Teresina - CEUT
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (3)
javascript10
browser10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bowser-js/bowser
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
a browser detector
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on enhancing browser detection capabilities by modifying the `bowser-js/bowser` repository. Their contributions included updating the browser aliases mapping, adding support for short browser names in the `satisfies` method, and fixing eslint errors. Furthermore, the user added detection for Miui Browser and support for using aliases in the `is` method.
useragentbrowserdevice-detectionbrowsersbrowser-detection
willamesoares/learn-d3
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
A Webpack + Babel setup for learning D3.js
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 2 months
babel-webpackbabeljstreechartjs-pluginwebpack-dev-server
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