James Rauhut
None at n/a - currently unemployed
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Rauhut is a front-end product designer and developer with 11 years of experience crafting thoughtful, user-focused interfaces from Austin, Texas. He brings a keen eye for layout and typography, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like IBM’s css-gridish and IBM Plex where he improved responsive grid behavior and polished documentation and type presentation. James blends practical CSS problem-solving—fixing margin calculations and responsive class importance—with an emphasis on delightful micro-interactions, matching his GitHub bio of “making happy little experiences.” Currently between roles, he offers solid open-source experience and a design-minded engineering approach that bridges visual detail and robust front-end implementation.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
css10
css-grid10
responsive-design10
scs10
fonts10
ui-design10
sc10
documentation10
html9
material-design9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/css-gridish
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Automatically build your grid design’s CSS Grid code, CSS Flexbox fallback code, Sketch artboards, and Chrome extension.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 55 commits, 38 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the styling and layout aspects of the `ibm/css-gridish` repository, specifically focusing on the Material Design example. Their commits involve modifications to CSS files, including the legacy and main versions. These changes address issues like incorrect margin calculations, the removal of unnecessary flexbox declarations, and improvements to the grid's responsive behavior by fixing the importance of certain CSS classes. The commits include improvements to the CSS grid layout and responsive design.
chrome-extensioncsscss-gridflexboxsketch
IBM/plex
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 96 commits, 21 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the IBM Plex typeface project by updating and refining the visual design and presentation within the documentation. This included updating the formatting of the tutorial content, restructuring the page layouts to better present the content, and migrating the documentation to use the design system. They were also responsible for adding a video to the webpage to show the different versions of typeface being developed.
plexdesignfonttypeface
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