Fred Block
Freelance Web Developer And Designer at Block Design
Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Block is a versatile Front End Web Developer and Designer with 11 years of professional experience building websites, branding systems, and marketing collateral from his base in Neenah, Wisconsin. He blends creative design sensibilities with solid front-end engineering—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Sass, Bootstrap—and backend skills in Node, Express, Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, alongside TDD and Agile practices. As founder of Block Design he has delivered end-to-end projects for web and editorial contexts, and his background as an airline first officer and flight instructor brings disciplined attention to safety, process, and detail. Educated through Turing and Udacity programs, he pairs formal aeronautical training with modern web development, making him comfortable translating complex requirements into usable, visually-driven web experiences.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Web Developer Nanodegree, Front End Web Developer Nanodegree at UdacityWeb Application Development with Ruby, Rails and JavaScript, Web Application Development with Ruby, Rails and JavaScript at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor of Aeronautical Science, Cum Laude Honors, Bachelor of Aeronautical Science, Cum Laude Honors at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Github Skills (11)
software-design7
lightning7
bitcoin7
openweathermap3
nodejs2
websocket2
asynchronous1
event-driven1
git-workflow1
ai1
natural-language-processing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
blocknroll/synthesis-mockdata
Aug 2015 - Jul 2020
Synthesis is a project to explore Node.js, Event-Driven-Development, and real-time Web Sockets.
Contributions:30 PRs, 17 pushes, 19 branches in 5 years
event-drivennodejswebsocket
blocknroll/projectairtime
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:103 PRs, 89 pushes, 113 branches in 6 months
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