Brent Larson
Sr. UX Engineer at Hearst Magazines
Glendale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Larson is a senior UX engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping user-focused React applications and internal tooling. He combines product thinking, user research, and frontend engineering to build design systems, component libraries, and onboarding processes that reduce ramp time and increase team efficiency. Brent has a track record of turning ambiguous requirements into shipped solutions under tight deadlines—examples include replacing a critical third-party tool in 40 days and merging legacy apps into a modern React platform. He proactively drives code quality through linting, TypeScript migrations, and standardized architectures while mentoring colleagues and improving cross-team communication. Based in Glendale, AZ, he blends design sensibility with developer rigor and often tackles organizational as well as product-level problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Graphic Communications, Bachelor of Science, Graphic Communications at Minnesota State Moorhead
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Github Skills (163)
material-ui10
javascript10
react-components10
feed10
compiler10
gatsby10
static-site-generator10
fastest10
bin-packing10
bootstrap-components10
grids10
material-design10
tasty10
graphql10
virtual10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NerdCowboy/nerdcowboy
Nov 2017 - Mar 2025
Nerd Cowboy
Contributions:2 PRs, 93 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 5 months
nerdcowboy
NerdCowboy/macos-dev
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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