Yaw Boakye
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolYaw Boakye is a software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building products at HypCloud GmbH and contributing to the Ember.js ecosystem. He founded DevCongress, the largest developer community in West Africa, demonstrating a knack for community building alongside technical work. Based in Dublin, he blends front-end expertise with a pragmatic, product-focused approach informed by a background in agricultural engineering. Known for thoughtful open-source contributions and the aphoristic GitHub motto "sic transit gloria mundi," he brings perspective and humility to long-running projects. Colleagues rely on him to connect developer communities, ship maintainable code, and translate complex problems into usable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, General Science, West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, General Science at Prempeh CollegeBSc Agricultural Engineering, Irrigation, Post-harvest technologies, Second Class Lower, BSc Agricultural Engineering, Irrigation, Post-harvest technologies, Second Class Lower at Kwame Nkrumah' University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
twi, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (136)
python10
mvc10
ruby10
emberjs10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
api10
golang10
html10
language-features10
oop10
json10
rails10
json-api10
tricks10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sahands/python-by-example
Feb 2015 - Feb 2020
Git repository for the "Python Language Features and Tricks You May Not Know Article" at http://sahandsaba.com/thirty-python-language-features-and-tricks-you-may-not-know.html
Contributions:1 PR, 1 issue in 5 years 1 month
git-repositorypythonlanguage-featurestrickspython-language
yawboakye/r
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
A tiny utility for retrying function until they succeed or exhaust maximum retries
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 6 months
maximumretriestinyuntilretrying
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