Andre Dickson

Backend Engineer

// trinidad and tobago, tt · UTC-4

Building in the open from Trinidad & Tobago. Backend Engineer.

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Scouting report

Trinidadian backend dev with a long account but mostly forked, dormant repos

assessed from open-source footprint

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Self-described backend engineer from Trinidad & Tobago with a 14-year-old account, Ruby and CoffeeScript leanings, and 36 historical merged PRs. The visible portfolio is thin on original work: a high fork ratio (0.78), no stars, and surfaced projects that are forks of others' products (37signals' writebook, Katacoda scenarios). With no commits in the past year and an 0.83 abandoned ratio, this reads as a long-idle profile rather than active, authored output.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on katacoda-scenarios

36 merged PRs0 commits / yr1 private contributions / yr

What they build

Backend100%

Signal breakdown

Originality29

Impact30

Consistency25

Polish39

Stars

Original repos

78% forks

Followers

On GitHub

13.9 yr

Live demos

Activity

Quiet

83% stale

Strengths

Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on katacoda-scenarios
36 merged pull requests
Backend focus
Core stack: CoffeeScript, Ruby

About

Backend Engineer from Trinidad & Tobago, active on GitHub with 27 public repositories and 18 followers. Explore the work and reach out on GitHub.

Skills

CoffeeScript
Ruby

Featured work

writebook

37signals closed source product

Code

by Andre Dickson

Katacoda Scenarios

Code

by Andre Dickson

datasciencecoursera

Data Scientist's Toolbox Repo

Code

by Andre Dickson

Atom Language Option

Syntax highlighting for the Option language

CoffeeScript

by Andre Dickson

option

record notation

Ruby

by Andre Dickson