Eric Gardner
Senior Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Gardner is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with 11 years of experience blending design sensibility and front-end engineering to build human-centered publishing and interactive experiences. He’s worked across cultural institutions and mission-driven studios—leading development at Rumors, shaping digital publications at the Getty, and now contributing to Wikimedia’s front end—where his open-source work added ES6 and Intersection Observer polyfills to MediaWiki to modernize compatibility and performance. Comfortable at the intersection of product, design, and code, he translates editorial and museum workflows into elegant, accessible web interfaces. Outside work he pursues analog and digital photography and cycling, bringing a craftsman’s attention to detail and a commitment to social justice into his technical work.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Design Communication Arts, Certificate, Design Communication Arts at UCLA ExtensionBachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Asheville
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
s610
polyfills10
vue10
mediawiki9
css8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and frontend functionality of the MediaWiki project. They added ES6 polyfills for array methods to the core, enabling the use of modern JavaScript features in older browsers. Furthermore, the user integrated the W3C Intersection Observer polyfill, providing the project with features for efficiently detecting when elements enter or exit the viewport. The user updated to the latest Codex version, improving the search functionality.
wikimediaphpwikipediacollaborative-editingruns
portland-dsa/website-hugo
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:379 PRs, 318 pushes, 369 branches in 1 year 8 months
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