Gavin Douglas
Group Product Manager at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Douglas is a product leader with 12 years of experience building mobile and web experiences, currently serving as Group Product Manager at Uber after leading the driver app experience and loyalty efforts. He has a track record of driving measurable engagement improvements—at Asana his mobile strategy lifted retention and engagement by 35%—and specializes in turning complex operational problems into intuitive, scalable product solutions. Gavin pairs enterprise product chops from Asana and Lithium with hands-on front-end sensibilities, contributing UI and accessibility improvements to the widely used TinyMCE editor. Based in San Francisco, he blends cross-functional leadership with a pragmatic engineering appreciation rooted in earlier solutions engineering roles and an economics degree.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Economics, Bachelor's Degree Economics at Washington and Lee University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
html10
rich-text-editor10
editor9
text-editor9
contenteditable9
html-editor9
ckeditor9
wysiwyg9
database-security6
sql-server6
asp-net6
google-chrome-extension6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tinymce/tinymce
Nov 2013 - Jun 2015
The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the UI design and styling aspects of the TinyMCE editor, specifically focusing on the appearance and behavior of components like table pickers, buttons, and menus. Their work involved modifying CSS styles, including cursor properties and color schemes, and altering the HTML structure to use elements such as `<button>` for improved accessibility. The commits demonstrate an emphasis on creating a consistent and visually appealing user interface.
vue-reactrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrichtext
gavdoug/playlistr
Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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