Brett Jurgens
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Jurgens is a software engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building and leading frontend teams and shipping production-grade web platforms. Currently at Google, he blends hands-on engineering with a history of management at Avant where he grew and managed frontend engineering teams. His open-source work includes quality and type-safety improvements to Microsoft’s widely used VSCode CSS language service, reflecting a strong focus on maintainable, strictly typed code. Brett’s background ranges from full-stack contributions to frontend architecture, and he’s comfortable moving between code, mentorship, and project ownership. Trained at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he brings a pragmatic, engineer-first approach to large-scale product development.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
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Github Skills (7)
css10
typescript10
refactoring10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
refactor10
code-analysis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-css-languageservice
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
CSS, LESS & SCSS language service extracted from VSCode to be reused, e.g in the Monaco editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on improving the code quality and maintainability of the CSS language service. They introduced stricter type checking and enabled strict mode across multiple files, including those related to colors, parsing, linting, and completion. These changes involved modifying the codebase to incorporate more robust type definitions and address potential issues, which enhances code reliability.
monacocss-variablesvscodecssvscode-extension
amount/gql2ts
May 2016 - Mar 2020
convert a graphql schema to a typescript definition
Contributions:6 releases, 78 commits, 228 PRs in 3 years 10 months
typescript-definitiongraphqlgraphql-schematypescriptdefinition
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