Jeff Siarto
Professor Of Practice at Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Siarto is a Professor of Practice and UX leader with 18 years of experience designing and building simple, usable web interfaces and educational web materials. He blends hands-on front-end development (HTML5, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript) and information architecture with teaching and open courseware advocacy, directing Michigan State’s UXMS program. His professional arc spans startups, agency leadership and academia—most recently shaping user experience at Element 84 and contributing front-end work to high-profile open projects like NASA’s Earthdata Search. Jeff is also an author and educator who translates complex topics into approachable screencasts, courseware and practical design guidance. Colleagues know him for thoughtful accessibility-first solutions that prioritize clarity over gimmicks and for bringing classroom rigor to production web projects.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (12)
html10
javascript10
scs10
front-end-development10
sc10
knockoutjs9
bootstrap9
knockout9
bootstra9
css9
user-interface6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/earthdata-search
Aug 2013 - Apr 2018
Earthdata Search is a web application developed by NASA EOSDIS to enable data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across EOSDIS' Earth Science data holdings.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:387 commits, 43 PRs, 162 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Earthdata Search application. Their work involved implementing the core layout framework, including the application's HTML structure, styling with SCSS, and JavaScript for interaction. Key additions included the initial implementation of a modal for custom data, the addition of a filter stack feature, and the addition of elements from the Bootstrap framework.
visualizationearthdata-searchdata-discoveryeosdis
loudpixel/highcharts-rails
Jan 2010 - Apr 2010
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
railshighchartsgraphsruby
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