Brenton Simpson
UX Engineer, Design at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrenton Simpson is a UX engineer with 14 years of experience designing and building pixel-perfect interactive prototypes and prototyping tools for Material Design at Google. He blends engineering, interaction design, and product thinking to rapidly iterate on immersive web experiences, from 3D HTML5 visualizations to mobile game concepts. An active open-source contributor, Brenton has improved notable projects like JSS and rebound-js by adding observable rule support and TypeScript annotations, and helped shape TypeScript typings and builds for tonejs/midi. Based in San Francisco, he also publishes experimental work under Apps for Artists, demonstrating a longstanding habit of shipping creative technical experiments alongside enterprise product work.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Entertainment Business, Entrepreneurship, BS, Entertainment Business, Entrepreneurship at USC Marshall School of Business
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
css-in-js10
jss10
typescript10
midi10
midi-instrument10
component-kit10
observable10
typescript-types10
observables10
typescripts10
webpack9
webpacker9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
Tonejs/Midi
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Convert MIDI into Tone.js-friendly JSON
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 16 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Brenton primarily contributed to the TypeScript type definitions for the `tonejs/midi` repository, focusing on defining and extending data structures related to MIDI file parsing. Their work included adding and modifying interfaces for `Note`, `Track`, `ControlChange`, and `MIDI` objects, and implementing specific features like `instrumentPatchID` and `instrumentFamilyID`. Further commits reveal they modified the build process, and added configuration to include code coverage, as well as added builds.
tonemidiaudiomusicjson
cssinjs/jss
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brenton primarily focused on enhancing the `JSS` library by integrating support for observable rules. Their contributions involved adding new features and improving existing ones to handle dynamic CSS properties derived from observables. They implemented and refined the observable rule plugin, including type definitions, and optimized the code by replacing `Object.entries` with a `for...in` loop. Additionally, they added more comprehensive tests for the observable rules feature.
hostauthoring-toolcsscssinjsstylesheets
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