Michael Durrant

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ABOUT ME

Responsive React Apps are my fave.

I love sharing, teaching and learning with others.
BDD/TDD Developer and Automation engineer in multiple languages and frameworks.
I have developed several React applications that are now deployed and hosted on Google Firebase GCP. My applications are responsive to multi devices, sizes and orientations with API based data that matches the use case at hand.
Current a Javascript es6+ testing fan, writing tests in Mocha, Chai, Jasmine, Jest
Proponent of Classes, Maps, Sets, Const, Spread, Deconstruct and Arrow functions
Test Obsessed and code review champion of healthy debate.
Stack Overflow Contributor, with over 17 million people helped! - http://stackoverflow.com/users/631619/michael-durrant
You can see my tech blog at: http://durrantm.wordpress.com

Technically I like to drive my code with tests. I love to take about code.
I code for fun and joy

I am always learning myself. My current focus is React.

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)

Joined December 2013

EXPERTISE

React

3 years experience

Most of my React work uses functional components and hooks. I've used a variety of css approaches for different situations. Testing wit...

Most of my React work uses functional components and hooks. I've used a variety of css approaches for different situations. Testing with Jest is always at 100%. I mock and stub dependencies for unit tests and I use a variety of techniques for integrated testing that reduce dependencies.

JavaScript

2 years experience

I specialize in newer Javascript, functional approaches and above all, clear and concise code with great tests. Code coverage is always ...

I specialize in newer Javascript, functional approaches and above all, clear and concise code with great tests. Code coverage is always 100% Most of my time is spent refactoring existing code in order to make it maintainable and easily changeable in the future

HTML/CSS

20 years experience

I am quite fussy about the smallest detail. I love using modern HTML and CSS to provide interactive and responsive sites on multiple dev...

I am quite fussy about the smallest detail. I love using modern HTML and CSS to provide interactive and responsive sites on multiple devices and sizes and doing so is also fun coding for me. I love applying principles of design and interactivity that so many of today's sites lack.

HTML5

Git

10 years experience

I thoroughly understand git as you can see in my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3329943/git-branch-fork-fetch-merge-rebase-...

I thoroughly understand git as you can see in my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3329943/git-branch-fork-fetch-merge-rebase-and-clone-what-are-the-differences/9204499#9204499 I've used it in several different engagements and I am comfortable with branches, merging, rebasing, using with heroku, etc.

Git GitHub

Agile

8 years experience

I don't care about the structure of standups or other Agile ceremonies. I am passionate about responding to user feedback as fast as poss...

I don't care about the structure of standups or other Agile ceremonies. I am passionate about responding to user feedback as fast as possible. I love activities that bring team members together to produce amazing results. Sometimes this means standups, retros and backlog grooming. In other situations, different ceremonies may also serve well. I remain true to the underling principles of XP programming and I care little for the bastardization of the terms by large corporations. yeah.

Scrum Kanban Continuous Integration

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

survey

Database for Surveys

setups

Setup, mostly "dot" files that work on both Ubuntu and OSX

HTML

Stack Overflow

79463 Reputation

272

396

Quick Tips

Learning git basics

Originally a quick Stack Overflow question-answer this stack overflow answer from me can now act as a good intro to using git. It is also a glimpse into my...

EMPLOYMENTS

Quality Leader

Sallie Mae

2017-07-01-2019-04-01

Quality Team Lead

Ruby

RSpec

Ruby

RSpec

Lead Quality Engineer

Everquote

2015-06-01-2017-07-01

Lead Automation Eningeer

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Quality Engineer

Zipcar

2015-06-01-2017-06-01

Automation Engineer

Ruby

RSpec

Capybara

Ruby

RSpec

Capybara

PROJECTS

New Automation Framework Implementation in Ruby

2018

Using Ruby, RSpec, Capybara DSL for Selenium

Automation

Bash Automation Framework

Personal

2016

Unlike modern framework which I implment, this is a case where I really did write an automation framework (for bash scripting functions) ...

Unlike modern framework which I implment, this is a case where I really did write an automation framework (for bash scripting functions) from scratch.

Bash

Shell

Bash

Shell