Michael Dougherty

Away on vacation

5.0

(3 reviews)

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ABOUT ME

Experienced full-stack engineer, functional programming aficionado, musician, & meditator

When I was 13 I brought a "Learn C++ in 21 days" book with me on a family vacation, and I've been writing code ever since. I've been pro for 8 years and have worked on a wide variety of projects, both as a freelancer and as an employee. I spent several years as an avid hobbyist game developer, and I always have at least one side project going on.

I love learning new skills and finding the best way to do things, so I am constantly learning new languages, frameworks, and best practices that I hope to share with you. I also love to teach!

English

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)

Joined April 2015

EXPERTISE

React

3 years experience | 1 endorsement

I have used React on nearly all of my professional projects since I started using it at my company a few years ago. It is my go-to tool f...

I have used React on nearly all of my professional projects since I started using it at my company a few years ago. It is my go-to tool for nearly any front-end project that has any complexity.

JavaScript

8 years experience | 1 endorsement

I've done a lot of front-end work, and written a lot of vanilla Javascript for the browser. Several years ago I used jQuery even for comp...

I've done a lot of front-end work, and written a lot of vanilla Javascript for the browser. Several years ago I used jQuery even for complex apps, but now I use frameworks like Angular and React

jQuery Angular React

Django

4 years experience | 1 endorsement

I've used Django for the vast majority of my backends, everything from small websites for small businesses to a complex SaaS system. I've...

I've used Django for the vast majority of my backends, everything from small websites for small businesses to a complex SaaS system. I've also had the opportunity to work on several with some of the top Django developers in the world (according to StackOverflow), so I've received a lot of mentoring myself!

Python

6 years experience | 1 endorsement

Python is by far my favorite, most productive language. I use it when I need to get something done right quickly. I've used for everythin...

Python is by far my favorite, most productive language. I use it when I need to get something done right quickly. I've used for everything from web apps, to natural language processing, to general scripting.

Django Flask SQLAlchemy

Django Flask SQLAlchemy Celery

Docker

2 years experience

I was in charge of our Docker containers at my last company, CrowdStreet. We used Docker containers for both the development environment ...

I was in charge of our Docker containers at my last company, CrowdStreet. We used Docker containers for both the development environment as well as the production deployments. I also use it for all new projects to streamline development and deployment.

DevOps

Git

5 years experience

Mastering git is a deep rabbit hole, and I certainly haven't made it to the bottom, but I know more than the basics, know how to keep thi...

Mastering git is a deep rabbit hole, and I certainly haven't made it to the bottom, but I know more than the basics, know how to keep things clean, and have gotten out of some sticky situations. I use git every day.

GitHub

HTML

15 years experience | 1 endorsement

I've been making webpages since 2000, back when people still used uppercase <HTML> tags. My first webpage had a <MARQUEE> :) Since then I...

I've been making webpages since 2000, back when people still used uppercase <HTML> tags. My first webpage had a <MARQUEE> :) Since then I've converted many a PSD into HTML.

SVG HTML5 Canvas

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(3 reviews)

Arpan Ghosh

September 2017

Michael is a JavaScript, HTML, and Django GOD. Michael was incredibly patient and he was very eager to help. I really liked his explanations, and his ability to come up with solutions on the fly is very admirable. He was able to jump right into some messy JavaScript code and figure out the problems right away without needing much help from me at all. Highly recommend Michael for your coding and computer science needs.

Andres Mendez

November 2015

Michael was very thorough and gave it his best. Thanks!

Alexander Dinari

November 2015

Great help!

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

scuttle-playbook

A very opinionated but very convenient way to test Secure Scuttlebutt applications

JavaScript

elm-purememo

Pure Memoization helpers for Elm

Elm

Stack Overflow

1491 Reputation

Community Posts

Animate anything with one line of CSS

The transition CSS property allows you to animate any continuous value over time. For example, if you have links that change color on hover like so: css a:link { color: blue; } a:link:hover { ...

Quick Tips

Looping over items in a Python list along with the index

Simply wrap the list or iterable in enumerate like so: names = ["alvin", "simon", "theodore"] for i, name in enumerate(names): print(i, name)...

EMPLOYMENTS

Web Development Mentor

Thinkful

2017-08-01-Present

One-on-one mentoring for students learning full-stack web development. I help them go from zero prior programming experience to being hir...

One-on-one mentoring for students learning full-stack web development. I help them go from zero prior programming experience to being hireable in six months.

HTML/CSS

Node.js

React

HTML/CSS

Node.js

React

Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack)

CrowdStreet

2016-03-01-2017-03-01

The company's main offering is a large Django application which serves as a marketplace for investment opportunities. I helped maintain t...

The company's main offering is a large Django application which serves as a marketplace for investment opportunities. I helped maintain this app as one of three developers. I also rewrote a huge portion of its frontend in React, which was previously implemented as Django templates. Also, I wound up being in charge of devops for some time, which involved working with Docker a lot

Django

PostgreSQL

Docker

Django

PostgreSQL

Docker

React

Full-stack Software Engineer

Building Energy Inc.

2015-08-01-2016-11-01

I worked across the stack on several projects simultaneously at this rapidly growing startup. I Implemented a management system which the...

I worked across the stack on several projects simultaneously at this rapidly growing startup. I Implemented a management system which the city of San Francisco used to manage its building energy benchmarking requirements. I also made the company's main app geospatially aware with a searchable map of buildings and a custom geocoding service.

Python

Django

Angular

Python

Django

Angular