Brendan Falkowski
Helmsman at Gravity Department
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Falkowski is a San Francisco–based web strategist and front-end specialist with 12 years of experience helping enterprise eCommerce teams design responsive, multi-device experiences. As Helmsman at Gravity Department he combines hands-on UI engineering with business-minded strategy, having consulted for billion-dollar companies and contributed UI improvements to notable open-source projects like Magento PWA Studio. His background blends self-directed craft, formal IST training, and early systems work at firms such as Credit Suisse and GE, giving him a pragmatic grasp of resilience and data design. Off the clock he pursues vintage motorcycle restoration and photography, influences that surface in his attention to detail and aesthetic-driven engineering.
12 years of coding experience
Foreign Exchange Study, Finance, Photography, Foreign Exchange Study, Finance, Photography at University of New South WalesBachelor of Science, Information Sciences & Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Sciences & Technology at Pennsylvania State University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
magento10
front-end-development10
pwapp10
html10
react10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
jes7
jestjs7
jtest7
jekyll6
dom6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
magento/pwa-studio
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
🛠Development tools to build, optimize and deploy Progressive Web Applications for Magento 2.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the functionality of the Magento PWA storefront. They made several changes to React components, including standardizing filenames, fixing a double export of a button component, and adding a product quantity stepper to the cart. They also updated existing UI components and improved code quality by removing unnecessary code and standardizing the use of GQL files.
magentopwa-studiopwa-storefrontveniapwa
maban/styleguides
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Documenting resources related to front-end style guides and pattern libraries
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 7 pushes, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brendan focused on enhancing the front-end functionality of the style guide documentation. Their work involved adding a "date" attribute to talk entries, reorganizing the display of example cards, and implementing filtering capabilities based on tags. They added JavaScript code for filtering and modified layouts to support tag-based filtering, improving user interaction with the style guides.
frontend
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