Alex Ristich
Frontend Developer at zalando
Summary
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RockstarAlex Ristich is a frontend developer with 10 years of experience, currently building user-focused interfaces and interactions. He combines practical engineering at scale with a keen eye for UX polish, having contributed UI improvements and feature work to the well-known Privacy Badger extension. At Zalando-level front-end work he brings strong CSS/HTML skills, attention to accessibility and UX details like tidy scrollbars and import/export workflows that improve real user privacy controls. Alex is comfortable shipping iterative visual enhancements and pragmatic features that bridge product needs and technical constraints. He favors tangible user impact over novelty, which shows in contributions that make privacy tools more usable and resilient. Based in the United States, he blends open-source collaboration with production frontend delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
google-chrome-extension10
javascript10
webextension10
user-interface10
chrome-extension10
user-experience9
html9
css9
ux-design9
fingerprinting8
privacy8
fingerprint8
redux-observable6
react-router-v46
connected-react-router6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EFForg/privacybadger
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 22 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the Privacy Badger browser extension. They made several changes to the `skin/popup.html` and `skin/popup.css` files, including renaming buttons, adjusting font sizes, and tidying up the scrollbar. The user also implemented new features, like the tracker list export and import, and added supporting UI elements within the options page. They also made visual improvements and fixes on the options page.
firefoxbrowserprivacyjavascriptwebextension
alexristich/annals-of-eratomis
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:24 PRs, 49 pushes, 27 branches in 4 months
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