Seth Davenport
Principal Software Developer at Wealthsimple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSeth Davenport is a Principal Software Developer with 11 years of professional experience, currently shaping platform and product engineering at Wealthsimple from Toronto. He blends deep hands-on engineering—spanning front-end frameworks like Angular and large-scale back-end systems—with leadership roles that have scaled teams and delivery at Rangle.io and Amazon. Seth has a track record of improving developer ergonomics and system reliability, from replacing legacy warehouse-routing software at Amazon to evolving Angular bindings in notable open-source repos. He pairs technical mentorship and architecture oversight with pragmatic delivery, having grown delivery organizations and led high-availability systems without disrupting operations. Trained as an engineer at McGill, he brings a rare mix of desktop, web, and distributed systems experience and a penchant for dependency and DI improvements that quietly lift team velocity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng, Computer and Electrical Engineering, B. Eng, Computer and Electrical Engineering at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (15)
front-end-development10
rxjs10
angular10
typescript-types9
redux9
typescript9
typescripts9
angular-cli8
dependency-injection8
angularjs6
lite-server6
swt6
redux-observable6
systemjs6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
angular-redux/store
Apr 2016 - May 2018
Angular 2+ bindings for Redux
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 131 commits, 277 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the Angular front-end of the project, with commits focusing on updating the code base to release candidates and final versions of Angular. They made updates to various example files to align with these Angular updates. Their work also involved the removal of project dependencies (lodash), and the implementation of dependency injection improvements.
angularreduxng2-reduxredux-store
rangle/typescript-react-redux-example
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Typescript, React, Redux, Webpack starter kit
Contributions:287 PRs, 294 pushes, 768 branches in 1 year
reactreduxtypescriptwebpack
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