Samuel Levens

Modular, readable, functional-lite code

Intro | Skills | CV | Projects

Who, me? 👨🏼‍🚀

CV | GitHub | LinkedIn

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I love building scalable, living projects that evolve with exploration and a natural curiousity. Starting out, I picture a real person I know using the tools I am creating and imagine their interactions.

Coding from a young age in math class on my TI-84 Plus Calculator 🧮, I built games that got shared around via cables to all my friends. That is when I discovered that interfaces can be awesome, or they can suck. I decided to build awesome.

⚡ 1337 Skillz 🚀

• React - Like the back of my hand. I've actually read most of the source code at this point.
• Redux - Everyone has a love/hate relationship with Redux, since Redux Toolkit has been released, I only love it :D
• GraphQL - I ship it ❤️‍🔥
• Apollo Client/Server
• Relay
• Databases
• Postgres
• Non-relational, MongoDB
• Websockets - Real time, all the time
• Typescript - Type is love, type is life
• Functional Programming - 🥷🥷
• etc. - CRA, Next.JS, Angular, NodeJS, Deno, Rust, Python

If it isn't on this list, ask me about it.

CV 📋

2020 ->

Multiple clients, mutliple frontends. Bespoke work from scratch in many cases. Setting up enterprise level projects quickly and efficiently. Mostly working with real time websockets for data layers.

⭐⭐⭐ Achievements

I am very proud of implementing a11y, as we were dealing with students from all kinds of backgrounds, accessibility and usability with screen readers/translation software was very important for me.

This was also the first time I built an entire app from scratch and made all the architectural decisions. I believe I have set it up very well so any engineers coming after will find it easy to understand and work with.

_{Front End | React:latest - Redux - Chakra UI - Queries - Websockets}

2018 - 2020

Greenfield project with agile development (Kanban). Primary responsibilities were developing front end.

_{Front End | ES6/7 - React 16.x (heavy use of hooks) - Redux - Relay - GraphQL}

_{Back End | Node 12.x - Bookshelf/Knex - PostgresQL}

Mini-Projects

Chamo | npm | GitHub

A simple functional programming library from basics. Derived completely from Reduce which only uses the for( of ) pattern for lists and for( in ) for objects. Everything else is in terms of reduce and basic arthmetic operators.

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Table Robot | https://robot.slevens.me/

The classic table robot implementation in the browser. Uses React and CSS for all the animation.

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GraphQL Tech Demo | https://graphql-example.slevens.me/

A little tech demo I did for a GraphQL setup

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Articles

• Setting up an inline video recording component with React and Hooks | Medium Article