Victor Quinn
Leader of Engineers.
Specializing in leading software engineers to build scalable backends.
Employment
Head of Engineering
2018 - Present
Growing and leading the engineering team, figuring out a hiring plan, making strategic technical decisions, and identifying key emerging tech
Instructor
2018 - Present
Teaching a full stack coding bootcamp, taking students from knowing nothing to being able to be employed as engineers
Director of Engineering
2016 - 2018
Leading teams of engineers at an e-commerce startup focused primarily on fashion
VP of Engineering
2013 - 2016
Leading engineering at a startup focused on location technology
Senior Software Engineer
2012 - 2013
Led team to revolutionize the way campaign contributions are taken by the primary fundraising platform for the Democratic Party
Web Programmer
2008 - 2012
Writing tools for educators and students to better collaborate and publish content
Senior Developer and Backup Systems Administrator
2005 - 2008
Writing custom software for internal processes and performing other sysadmin tasks
Education
B.S. Physics, B.S. Computer Science
2001 - 2006
Graduated with degrees in two difficult hard science subjects
Juris Doctor, Intellectual Property Law
2007 - 2012
Focus on Intellectual Property law. Attended part-time at night while working full-time as a computer programmer during the day
Writing
My blog consisting mostly of technical articles
This easy and approachable getting started guide is a great point of entry for developers looking to maximize their terminal usage.
Honors
Projects
Minimalist generator of random strings, numbers, and more. I started Chance as a small project and it has since grown to a whole organization with dozens of contributors
Batch Request is lightweight connect/express middleware for Node.js which allows clients to send multiple requests to a server running Node.js in batch.
Dynasty is a clean and simple Amazon DynamoDB client for Node with baked in Promise support.
An extension for Backbone.js with a Sync that adds support for IE 7-9 CORS requests.
The theme for this site! It's a Hugo theme tailored for this kind of content -- part portfolio, part site rendering cards for the relevant things.