Jeffery Warren
Design Director at Vestal Design
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeffery Warren is a Design Director and full‑stack developer with 17 years of experience based in New Haven, Connecticut, who blends UI/UX sensibility with hands‑on Rails and JavaScript engineering. He leads product and design work at Vestal Design while contributing to prominent open‑source projects—most notably a long history with Public Lab repositories like plots2, image‑sequencer and MapKnitter—where he improves search, mapping and image processing UIs and modernizes CI/CD. His work spans front‑end interaction design, back‑end Rails enhancements, DevOps migrations to GitHub Actions, and creative geospatial/image‑processing tools. As a 2023 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress, he also contributes research‑grade code, showing he moves comfortably between civic‑tech, education, and prototype engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, detail‑oriented fixes that improve usability and developer workflows alike.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
ruby-rails10
github-ci10
javascript10
bootstrap10
web-application10
back-end-development10
leaflet10
image-processing10
css10
rails10
user-interface10
p5js10
ui-design10
cicd10
ruby10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 690 reviews, 1156 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jeffery made significant contributions to the Rails-based Public Lab project, focusing on front-end development, UI design, and back-end enhancements. Their commits included modifications to the layout and header, addition and correction of CSS styling, improvements to the tag-based and general search and autocomplete features, and fixes to various issues like those related to images, comments, and the display of activity grids. The commits demonstrate a good understanding of web application development in a Rails environment, with attention to detail.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
publiclab/mapknitter
Nov 2014 - Aug 2022
Upload your own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 311 commits, 612 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeffery primarily focused on front-end and back-end updates to the MapKnitter project. They removed legacy code related to map exporting and transitioned the project to using the new cloud exporter. Additionally, the user implemented various UI improvements including fixing edit buttons, adjusting pagination parameters, and adding OpenStreetMap ID editor direct links. They also added Google Analytics and adjusted the display of information related to export statuses.
positionexportweb-interfacemapboxmediawiki-extension
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