Alexander Schmitz
UX Accessibility Engineer at Freelance
Westbrook, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Schmitz is a UX Accessibility Engineer and full‑stack developer with 14 years of experience building inclusive, standards-driven web experiences from the front end to server and mapping backends. He’s an active open-source maintainer and project leader, having steered and contributed to high-profile projects like jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile and Hammer.js, and authored the only fully internationalized input number formatter based on Intl. A long‑time W3C contributor, he brings product and standards expertise to accessibility and API design, particularly around pointer events and browser interoperability. Alexander has led teams and architectures across startups and agencies, shipping Svelte/Postgres/GraphQL mapping platforms, complex cartographic tooling, and scalable web systems on AWS. He blends pragmatic engineering with design sensibility from decades of freelance UX and graphic work, and often surfaces subtle cross-device edge cases that improve real-world accessibility. Based in Westbrook, Maine, he combines deep open‑source pedigree with hands‑on product delivery at Mozilla and prior clients.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at University of Southern Maine
Github Skills (16)
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web-widgets10
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javascript10
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front-end-development10
ui-design10
website-development10
jquery10
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testing10
touch-event9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jquery-archive/jquery-mobile
Oct 2012 - Jan 2017
jQuery Mobile Framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:714 commits, 264 PRs, 164 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits focused on fixing issues related to the jQuery Mobile framework's fixed toolbars, with specific emphasis on improving page transitions and handling of dynamic content. Their work involved removing unnecessary classes, adjusting CSS for positioning, and correcting JavaScript code related to animations to ensure proper rendering of fixed elements. The contributions addressed issues across different devices and browsers, enhancing the framework's usability.
mobile-frameworkjqueryjquery-mobilejavascriptandroid
jquery/jquery-ui
Jul 2013 - Apr 2017
The official jQuery user interface library.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 284 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the jQuery UI library, primarily focusing on the Widget Factory and related components. They made improvements to the factory itself, including returning the constructor and fixing issues in tests. Their work also included modifications to the Dialog component, the theme CSS and the Accordion and Autocomplete components. These changes suggest a broad engagement across different aspects of the UI library.
user-interfacejavascriptjquery
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