Wilson Wilson
Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolWilson Wilson is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing products and consumer web experiences, currently engineering at Disney Streaming. He has a strong track record in developer experience and front-end work from Netlify and contributions to open-source projects like a Gatsby e-commerce theme where he improved accessibility, UI, and touch targets. Comfortable across React, Rails, SQL and real-time features, he has shipped performance optimizations (800% query improvements) and security fixes in production learning platforms. An experienced instructor and evangelist, he’s taught hundreds of students, spoken at conferences, and built tools that scale to thousands of users. He advocates for diversity and inclusion in tech and blends pragmatic engineering with a care for user empowerment—also willing to code and talk tech for a pet corgi. Based in Jersey City, he pairs product empathy with hands-on craftsmanship across full-stack and developer experience domains.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.I.T Cryptocurrency Bootcamp, M.I.T Cryptocurrency Bootcamp at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Central Florida
German, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
gatsby10
ecommerce9
html9
template-tags8
templater8
template-engine8
netlify8
data-visualization6
curl6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
netlify-templates/gatsby-ecommerce-theme
May 2022 - May 2022
A Gatsby-based starter theme with e-commerce styled components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Wilson primarily focused on improving the user interface and experience of the Gatsby e-commerce theme. Their contributions include modifying header icons to use appropriate HTML elements, adding styling and color to the icons, and making blog list title links and increasing touch targets. They also refactored the notification card placement and performed linting updates.
gatsbytemplatereactecommercecommerce
learn-co-students/dumbo-web-051418
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 23 pushes in 1 month
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