Brandon Blaylock

Frontend Developer

https://talent.gravityer.com/brandon-blaylock

I'm just a baby!

California, United States

Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in TypeScript, demonstrating strong frontend development potential.
Proficiency in functional programming concepts (Monads, Semigroups, Optics) as shown in 'fun' project.
Experience with build and configuration tools like Nix and Dockerfile, indicating an understanding of development environments.
Familiarity with various frontend technologies including SCSS, HTML, and Preact.
Demonstrated interest in API development and code generation with 'bee-api' and 'api-codegen-ts'.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's extensive personal projects, particularly those exploring functional programming and system configuration (Nix), suggest a strong drive for learning and independent problem-solving. The diversity of projects, from frontend applications to API development and tooling, indicates a broad technical curiosity. However, without professional experience, it's difficult to assess collaboration and team-oriented cultural fit.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

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Projects

.nix

March 19, 2022 – Present

Nix flake-based system configurations

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fun

April 12, 2021 – Present

Functional programming for deno and javascript. Monads, semigroups, optics, parsers, state management, yadda yadda yadda.

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bee-api

November 25, 2020 – January 25, 2021

Api for bee.ignoble.dev

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bee

May 16, 2020 – June 27, 2025

A try at cloning the New York Times Spelling Bee

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spellbook-api

May 2, 2020 – January 9, 2023

Quick Firestore API for spellbook.ignoble.dev

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datum

August 13, 2019 – October 23, 2023

An algebraic data type for loading and refreshing data.

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preact-ui

August 9, 2019 – October 6, 2021

Collection of ui components for preact

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api-codegen-ts

June 4, 2019 – August 11, 2021

A generalized codegen library by default setup to go from swagger 2.0 to typescript.

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dux

February 7, 2019 – March 15, 2024

Tools for writing portable redux, flux, and ngrx code. Type safe and boilerplate reducing.

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tycs

September 4, 2018 – September 18, 2018

Teach Yourself Computer Science

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Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in TypeScript, demonstrating strong frontend development potential.
Proficiency in functional programming concepts (Monads, Semigroups, Optics) as shown in 'fun' project.
Experience with build and configuration tools like Nix and Dockerfile, indicating an understanding of development environments.
Familiarity with various frontend technologies including SCSS, HTML, and Preact.
Demonstrated interest in API development and code generation with 'bee-api' and 'api-codegen-ts'.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

Brandon Blaylock

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

Top Skills

Skills

Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit