Jake Giltsoff
Senior Staff Designer at Adobe
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Giltsoff is a Senior Staff Designer at Adobe with 13 years of experience specializing in type, typography, and front-end design for Adobe Fonts and Creative Cloud integrations. He blends deep typographic craft with practical front-end development—evidenced by contributions like refactoring the sassline repo to enforce baseline grids and responsive type systems. Jake has progressed through hands-on and managerial roles at Adobe, consistently shaping how fonts and layout tools empower creative workflows across apps. Based in Los Angeles and originally from the UK, he brings a designer’s attention to detail alongside pragmatic implementation skills. Outside work he renovates mid-century and A-frame homes, coaches fitness, and bakes widely praised chocolate chip cookies—small clues that his approach is both iterative and human-centered.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Reading
Github Skills (3)
css10
responsive-design10
typography9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jakegiltsoff/sassline
Jul 2013 - Nov 2020
Set text on the web to a baseline grid with Sass & rems using a responsive modular-scale.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 86 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on refactoring and updating the project's CSS styling. They made significant changes to the navigation styles, including font families and responsive design adjustments. They also updated font sizes and spacing, and implemented a new small-caps class. Additionally, they removed demo typekits, demonstrating an understanding of the project's visual elements and their implementation.
sassmodular-scalecssremsbaseline-grid
jakegiltsoff/svgontheweb
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Techniques you can use to prepare, implement, and work with SVGs on the web.
Contributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 7 months
techniquessvgjavascriptpreparesvgs
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