Brian Young
Front End Developer at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Young is a front-end developer based in Palo Alto with 14 years of experience crafting accessible, responsive interfaces and CMS themes for large institutions and startups. At Stanford University he has led design and implementation of web templates, CSS guidelines, and custom themes across Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki and numerous enterprise apps, ensuring consistent, usable experiences across diverse platforms. He combines strong HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills with usability research and instructional experience, translating qualitative analysis into pragmatic UI patterns and training for teams. His background includes building product-facing UIs for environmental advocacy and property-management platforms, plus hands-on IT and e-commerce work that give him a practical systems perspective. Unusually for a front-end specialist, he pairs a Stanford M.A. in Education with a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley, which informs his user-centered design and communication strengths.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics, B.A., Economics at University of California, BerkeleyM.A., Education, M.A., Education at Stanford University
Github Skills (3)
drupal-theme10
drupal3
jumpstart3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SU-SWS/open_framework
Mar 2012 - Jun 2017
Open Framework Drupal Theme
Contributions:10 releases, 438 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 3 months
drupal-themed7
su-ddd/jQuery-UI-Stanford-Modern-Theme
Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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