Hugh Guiney
Lead Frontend Engineer at No Spoon Productions
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHugh Guiney is a Lead Frontend Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and building thoughtful, accessible web and product experiences for startups, SMBs, and household brands. He combines hybrid designer–developer skills to ship functional prototypes instead of static mockups, accelerating iterations and reducing handoff cost while keeping performance and accessibility front and center. At Klaviyo he led a UX-focused frontend team, modernized React infrastructure, and owned features tied to $1M MRR, while mentoring junior engineers and defining TypeScript/JS standards. Hugh also maintains open-source work—fixing cross-browser issues in projects like defiant.js—and builds a TypeScript “hypervideo” stack that blurs product design and language design. Outside of engineering he runs an indie film label and periodical, bringing storytelling and production discipline to product work. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, empathetic to real-world device constraints, and relentless about preventing technical debt.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Japanese
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Github Skills (15)
internet-explorer10
javascript10
maintenance10
backward-compatibility10
cross-browser10
browser-support10
xslt8
storage6
html6
protocol-handler6
browser6
php6
protocols6
mysql6
moniker6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hbi99/defiant.js
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
http://defiantjs.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Hugh primarily contributed to the JavaScript library, defiant.js, by fixing browser compatibility issues, particularly for Internet Explorer 11. Their work involved modifying the library's code to address rendering and functionality problems specific to IE11. Additionally, the user updated version numbers in the library files, indicating a role in maintaining and releasing updates to the project. These commits suggest a focus on ensuring cross-browser compatibility and library maintenance.
javascript
HughxDev/eslint-config-hughx
Mar 2019 - Nov 2023
Provides hughx’s JavaScript conventions as .eslintrc shared configs. Emphasizes readability and ease of writing.
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 16 tags in 4 years 8 months
eslintconfigsjavascripteslintrcreadability
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