Brad Birdsall
Director, Product Design at Facebook
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Birdsall is a product design leader with 13 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and shaping product direction at Facebook, where he progressed from Product Design Lead to Director, Product Design. He combines a mechanical engineering and computer science background with hands-on front-end chops—evidenced by contributions to the Swipe touch slider repo, including a full rewrite of Swipe 2 and mobile UI fixes. Brad has led design organizations at scale, previously serving as Head of Design at Medium and VP of Product & Design at Lucid Performance, bringing both startup agility and enterprise rigor. Based in San Francisco, he excels at translating complex technical constraints into elegant user experiences and mentoring design teams to ship impactful, production-ready products.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering Computer Science at Kettering University
Stackoverflow
1,753reputation
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3answers
19questions
Github Skills (11)
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
responsive-design9
html8
extjs6
jquery6
iphone6
ipad6
cross-browser6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
thebird/Swipe
Sep 2012 - Apr 2013
Swipe is the most accurate touch slider.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily focused on front-end development, specifically enhancing the UI and user experience of the "Swipe" touch slider. Their work includes fixing mobile CSS bugs, integrating code from other branches, updating the example page with a jQuery example, and updating the required CSS for proper functionality. Furthermore, the user contributed to refactoring the codebase with a complete rewrite of Swipe 2 and updated the license and year.
animationslideswipe-gesturestouch-eventsslider
lucidperformance/next.js
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
react-appsreactserver-rendered
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