I'm presently a senior software engineer at the New York Times, where I work primarily on TypeScript and React tools. Here's a blog post I wrote about expanding our front end testing frameworks. I'm a front end engineer attached to a data science team, so the work is varied. Recently, I've set up data flows from a third party vendor to Google's Big Query to the front end of our app, created a new component that displays screenshots, and written logic to generate explainer text on various statistics.
Previously, I used JS with React and Node to create tools that allow nontechnical people to publish rich, complex ads (Think a smaller SquareSpace). The tools are proprietary, but here are some things that have been made with them. I also put together and conducted a series of trainings for designers, to enable them to write CSS without need for a developer.
I've also done more UX-focused work, hand coding bespoke pages from scratch for the Times’ in house studio. Each page had to be responsive from 1605px down to the smallest phone; I supported anything with 2% market share or more.
Because of this varied experience, I’ve worked with a lot of different technology. In addition to meat-and-potatoes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, tools and frameworks I’ve worked with include:
Big Tools:
- Node
- TypeScript
- Cypress
Smaller Tools:
- GraphQL/Apollo
- JSX
- Jest/React Testing Library
- Jest/Enzyme
Styles and Style tools:
- SASS
- Material UI
- CSS-in-JS
Design Things
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Custom CSS Animations
JS Work Samples
Here's a Memory game in React that I built. It lives in this repo.
Here's a work sample that shows I can fetch data from an API and do things with it.
There are other samples available on my GitHub
But wait, there's more! I also have interests, a personal life, and know a fabulous recipe for acorn squash
When not working, I can be found making pizza for my friends, being instructed in the ABCs by my toddler, and gesturing wildly while debating the world’s problems. I'm married to a former random Craiglist roommate from my very first apartment in New York. Before coming here, I was a preschool teacher in Vietnam for a year, and before that, I lived in upstate New York and Vermont. I also made this the other day, and it was magical.
HTML/CSS/JS Work Samples
- Was part of a team that created Does the body reveal secrets about our decisions?, which was nominated for a 2017 Webby Award
- Codeveloped a series of Paid Posts for the Gates Foundation.
- Sole developer on a number of things that are not currently online, but which I remember fondly. The coolest were an ad that dropped people into a Google Street view of a certain street and let them guess which city they were in and a Delta ad that had cool animations about plane seats. They will be missed.