Drake Costa
Software Engineering Consultant at Self-employed
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDrake C is a software engineering consultant and self-taught full-stack TypeScript engineer with 10 years of experience building and refactoring web UIs and developer tooling. He’s contributed to high-profile open-source projects like CodeSandbox—modernizing React hooks, TypeScript parts, GraphQL handling and SSE UI—and implemented a Reflection API for the type-safe valibot schema library, demonstrating strength in developer-facing libraries. His career includes full-stack and senior roles at CodeSandbox, Nike (via VanderHouwen), and M1, and he now consults from Vancouver, WA. Early experience as a game/mod level designer and a Blizzard internship surfaces in his pragmatic, user-focused approach to interactive systems. Outside of work he pursues photography, PC gaming and Magic: The Gathering, blending creative instincts with technical precision.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc at Renton Technical CollegeGnomon School of Visual EffectsAA - Visual Communications, AA - Visual Communications at Las Positas College
Japanese
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Github Skills (23)
api-doc10
hook10
javascript10
typescript310
validations10
typescript10
schema-design10
typescript210
validation10
type-system10
type-systems10
javascripts10
api10
typescript-types10
codesandbox10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
codesandbox/codesandbox-client
May 2019 - Dec 2019
An online IDE for rapid web development
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 43 PRs, 117 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Drake primarily contributed to refactoring and updating front-end components within the CodeSandbox client. Their work includes refactoring GraphQL result reassignment, updating SSEDownNotice, refactoring GitHub Workspace to use hooks and refactoring more Workspace to use hooks. They also replaced icons and refactored the Navigation component to use React Hooks and TypeScript.
reactjavascriptsvelteonline-idepreact
fabian-hiller/valibot
Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
The modular and type safe schema library for validating structural data 🤖
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 2 PRs, 46 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Drake contributed to the `valibot` library by implementing a Reflection API. This involved adding new types and functionalities, along with the modification of existing files to support the addition of the Reflection API feature. Further contributions included the addition of validation metadata to new validations, and a refactor of `SchemaMeta` usage, in addition to the removal of features. The user also refactored methods for default and fallback values.
bundle-sizemodularparsingruntimetype-safe
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