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πŸ‘‹ Hi, I'm Courtney Hackshaw

πŸ’Ό About Me

🧠 Experienced Full-Stack Developer with 7+ years of experience leading development across startups and enterprise environments across fintech, education, and creative industries.
Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, Redux, and testing frameworks like Jest and Cypress.

Key achievements:

  • Building automation platforms that saved thousands of man-hours
  • Contributing to open-source projects used globally
  • Supporting a startup through acquisition
  • Led development of internal platforms at a financial firm, streamlining service delivery and reducing turnaround times.
  • Built secure, maintainable APIs with NodeJS, Flask, Laravel, Slim & GraphQL
  • Crafted responsive front-ends with React, Redux, Tailwind, Radix UI & Shadcn.

I care deeply about code quality, developer productivity, and balancing UX with performance in every product I build. Known for bridging technical and non-technical teams, leading demos with C-suite, and mentoring junior developers on testing, architecture, and UI/UX best practices. Writes code and authors articles at @playfulprogramming ✨


πŸš€ What I'm Working On

  • Job Helper App – AI-powered job search & CV generation platform
  • Original Flava Platform – Mobile app, CMS, and web app infrastructure for a growing food brand
  • Playful Programming Contributions – Open source projects & developer articles

πŸ› οΈ Tech Stack & Tools

Front-End:
TypeScript React Redux RTK Tailwind CSS HTML5 CSS3 SASS LESS Astro Preact Shadcn Radix UI Apollo GraphQL

Testing:
React Testing Library Jest Cypress PHPUnit

Mobile:
React Native

Back-End:
Laravel Slim Framework WordPress Flask NodeJS GraphQL

Databases:
MSSQL MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB

Tools & DevOps:
Git Netlify AWS GitHub Bash Docker


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  1. playfulprogramming/playfulprogramming playfulprogramming/playfulprogramming Public

    πŸ¦„ Practice programming with magically majestic methods

    TypeScript 204 103

  2. python-shared python-shared Public

    Demo'ing sharing code between Python apps

    Dockerfile

  3. flask-reload-in-docker flask-reload-in-docker Public

    Testing a simple Flask app

    Python

  4. DragAndDrop DragAndDrop Public

    Simple drag and drop for React

    TypeScript