Brian Santalone
Lead Web Engineer at WNET New York Public Media
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Santalone is a Lead Web Engineer with over a decade of experience crafting lightweight, user-focused front ends backed by robust WordPress systems for public media and large sports networks. At WNET New York Public Media he leads custom template and admin development for national and local programming, blending PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with usability consulting across production teams. His background building fantasy sports platforms for major outlets honed his product-minded approach to wireframing, feature design, and daily maintenance of high-traffic sites. He specializes in clean, performance-oriented code, SEO, and social-driven traffic growth that turns content into engaged audiences. Trained in English and Philosophy, he brings a deliberate, user-centric perspective to interface design and content workflows that isn’t obvious from his technical stack alone. Based in the Greater Tampa Bay Area, he excels at translating editorial and production needs into pragmatic web solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, Philosophy, English, Philosophy at Hunter College
Github Skills (7)
member10
wordpress-plugin9
wordpress9
authentication8
pbs8
station7
gutenberg6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
wnet-ieg-2/pbs-passport-authenticate
Nov 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:301 commits, 6 PRs, 33 pushes in 7 years 1 month
wordpressmemberauthenticationpbsstation
wnet-ieg-2/cove-asset-manager
Jan 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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