Jason Brown is a senior web developer and webmaster with 16 years of experience building and maintaining large, content-rich sites for government and commercial clients, including a 1,200+ page Army site and multiple public-facing CMS platforms. He blends front-end craftsmanship (hand-coded HTML/CSS/JS, Bootstrap, React/TypeScript contributions) with backend operations, R&D, SEO, and cybersecurity-aware IT support, often owning end-to-end delivery from design through deployment. Jason has led cross-organizational teams on DoD contracts, built custom ticketing and analytics workflows using Microsoft Power Platform, and produced video assets to extend digital reach. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced front-end UX in projects like a popular jQuery snowfall plugin and a React lazy-load component, showing a practical focus on performance and polish. Based in Annapolis, he pairs a Navy background in operations and IT with formal computer science training to solve both technical and process challenges for stakeholders.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor's Degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at International Academy of Design and Technology-Tampa
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Maryland
Makes it snow on any web page or specific element.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:47 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 years
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of the jQuery Snowfall plugin, focusing on front-end enhancements. Their work involved adding new features, such as the ability for snowflakes to collect on page elements, and refactoring to address issues. The user also updated the plugin's core functionalities and added styling options. Their contributions improved the plugin's capabilities and user experience.
React component that renders children elements when they enter the viewport.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 4 reviews, 51 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of a React component for lazy loading images. They implemented the component's core functionality, including determining visibility based on the viewport and rendering child elements accordingly. The user also refactored the code to use TypeScript and updated the example to showcase the component's usage. Furthermore, the user migrated the build process from Babel to Vite.
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