Brent Swisher
Senior Software Engineer at ITHAKA
Dowagiac, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Swisher is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years delivering web platforms for higher education, now improving JSTOR at ITHAKA by building Node.js services, TypeScript packages, and React/Vue microfrontend templates that accelerate team delivery. He blends pragmatic engineering with design-system stewardship—contributing to Pharos and open-source work like enhancements to WordPress’s widely used Gutenberg editor—bringing accessibility and frontend polish to complex products. Previously he ran a solo web consultancy and led campus-wide web systems at Grand Valley State University, where he built a custom CMS powering hundreds of sites. Based in Dowagiac, Michigan, Brent pairs hands-on coding with a maker’s curiosity—brewing beer and gardening when he’s not wrestling with TypeScript.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Information Systems Minor in Business, BS in Information Systems Minor in Business at Grand Valley State UniversityAssociate in the Arts, Associate in the Arts at Southwestern Michigan College
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Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
gutenberg10
react10
accessibility9
storybook8
html7
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 59 commits, 67 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brent contributed to the front-end components of the WordPress Gutenberg editor. Their work included fixing formatting issues in documentation, adding features to the image and embed blocks, and updating the accessibility of the editor. They also made enhancements to the autocomplete feature, and implemented new UI components by adding the Spinner, RangeControl, FontSizePicker, TextControl, TextAreaControl, SelectControl, DropdownMenu, and GradientPicker components to the Storybook.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
brentswisher/gutenberg
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Printing since 1440. Development hub for the editor focus in core. Plugin is available from the official WordPress repository.
Contributions:55 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year
wordpress-repositoryprintingwordpressplugin-corein-core
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