Erick Montes is a product leader with 12 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, design sensibility, and AI product strategy to ship user-centered web experiences. He progressed from customer support and account management into product roles at BioIQ and Invoca, most recently serving as Senior Product Manager focused on AI-driven features and product definition. A developer-designer at heart, Erick contributes to open-source projects—improving UI/UX and accessibility in frameworks like web2py and enhancing front-end tooling such as the widely used jquery-placeholder plugin—bringing practical front-end chops to product decisions. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he uniquely pairs a liberal arts background in political science and global studies with deep interests in machine learning, usability, and programming languages, which helps him translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear user value.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Global Int. Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Global Int. Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara
A jQuery plugin that enables HTML5 placeholder behavior for browsers that aren’t trying hard enough yet
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 49 commits, 38 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Erick primarily contributed to the `jquery-placeholder` plugin by enhancing its functionality and improving its code quality. They made the selector more specific for password fields and implemented a custom CSS class support to allow for more customization. Furthermore, the user bumped the version number and minified the code, ensuring the plugin remained up-to-date and optimized. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the plugin's usability and maintainability.
Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of secure database-driven web-based applications, written and programmable in Python.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 28 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Erick primarily focused on improving the application's UI and adapting it to the Bootstrap 4 framework. Their contributions included styling buttons and tables in the appadmin section and updating the layout. The user also addressed minor issues like typo corrections and removing unnecessary tags. Furthermore, they made changes to the application's core files demonstrating a good understanding of the overall project structure.
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