Becca Bailey

Engineering Manager

Becca Bailey comes to Formidable an experienced software engineer consultant, having worked at the Chicago-based firm 8th Light for three years and with Chicago tech startup, The Mom Project. Prior to her career in software, Becca majored in music education and worked in music/fine arts education for several years. Here at Formidable she specializes in front-end development, primarily in React, with an emphasis on architecture, data visualization, and product design improvements. Becca is a well-known speaker and author on the topics of testing, refactoring, and front-end component design, and counts her appearance at React Conf. as a personal career highlight. She's also grateful to work on client data visualization projects with tangible humanitarian effects.

Adventures with Victory and Canvas

November 4, 2021

In this post, I will focus on how we can use the Canvas API to create custom data visualization components that can be used with Victory or as standalone visualizations.

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Data Visualizations and the Main Thread: A (Sometimes) Love Story

October 27, 2021

Over the past six weeks, I have been working on a fellowship here at Formidable to dive into data visualization performance with large datasets, and how we can improve [](https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/)Victory to take some pressure off the main thread. Here's how.

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Calibrated Code Reviews

December 10, 2020

Approaching our code reviews from a place of intentionality can help us build better relationships with our teammates, inspire more thoughtful conversations, and improve the quality of the work we are putting out into the world.

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