Jeremy Fields
Senior Development Director, Platform And UI
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Fields is a seasoned platform and UI engineering leader with 14 years of experience guiding teams and shipping accessible, performant web experiences from Boulder, Colorado. As Viget’s Senior Development Director, Platform and UI, he shapes technical strategy, hiring, and cross-team processes while managing and mentoring mid-sized engineering groups. He rose through hands-on front-end roles—architecting Craft and WordPress builds, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA standards, and leading high-profile projects like feedthefuture.gov and rotary.org’s design system. Jeremy pairs practical engineering chops (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP) with product-minded leadership, balancing delivery, career development, and resourcing. An active open-source contributor, his work on front-end utilities such as jRespond and what-input shows attention to responsive behavior and input ergonomics, including modernizing libraries to remove jQuery dependencies. He brings a mix of client-facing agency experience and department-level strategy that helps translate design intent into scalable, maintainable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Bachelor's degree Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at Webster UniversityArchitecture, Architecture at Kansas State University
Github Skills (8)
responsive-design10
javascript10
lib10
front-end-development10
html9
css9
mouse-events9
touch-event8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ten1seven/jRespond
May 2012 - Jan 2019
⛔️DEPRECATED: jRespond is a simple way to globally manage javascript on responsive websites.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 70 commits, 6 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy's contributions focused on enhancing the jRespond library, a JavaScript tool for managing responsive website behavior. Their work involved modifying the core functionality of the library, specifically updating the closure system. They added features for firing functions at specific breakpoints based on the screen size. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the logic within the breakpoint loop to ensure functions were properly called and removed dependencies like jQuery and updated the minified file.
cssjavascriptresponsivebreakpoints
ten1seven/what-input
Mar 2015 - May 2022
A global utility for tracking the current input method (mouse/pointer, keyboard or touch).
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:57 releases, 279 commits, 61 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, implementing UI components and addressing styling issues. They were involved in setting up the initial structure, including the use of a build system. The user also improved the visual presentation of the demo, including styling for links and form controls. They also fixed a bug with the handling of mouse events.
input-methodmethodmousetouchkeyboard-events
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