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Michael Leighton

Full-Stack Engineer

// jamaica, jm · UTC-5

Building in the open from Jamaica. Full-Stack Engineer.

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Jamaican frontend dev with a steady coursework-driven portfolio

assessed from open-source footprint

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Michael is a frontend-leaning full-stack dev (64% frontend) with a Node/Express + MySQL CRUD leaderboard app and several deployed projects, working across HTML/JS/TS/Python and 40 merged PRs. Much of the body of work is university coursework (e.g. COMP3220/COMP3220 assignments), recent activity is light at 17 commits last year, and 90% of repos are abandoned. A developing generalist worth screening for fundamentals and current momentum.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on leaderboard-management-system
40 merged PRs17 commits / yr2 external projects

Contributes to

  • Bordeaux2294/Footnote0
  • tarequerobinson/dr-drive-frontend0

What they build

Frontend64%
Backend26%
Design6%

Industry experience

  • Productivity & SaaS
  • Web & CMS
  • Fintech & Payments

Signal breakdown

Originality94
Impact63
Consistency65
Polish44
Stars

7

top repo 2

Original repos

39

18% forks

Followers

30

On GitHub

4.7 yr

Live demos

6

Activity

Active

90% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on leaderboard-management-system
  • Open-source contributor — 2 external projects incl. Bordeaux2294/Footnote (0★)
  • 40 merged pull requests
  • Original builder — 39 of their own repositories
  • Ships to production — 6 live demos
  • Frontend focus with Backend
  • Domain experience in Productivity & SaaS & Web & CMS