Jim Thoburn
User Experience Engineer at Render
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Thoburn is a User Experience Engineer with 14 years of experience helping teams bridge design and engineering to build accessible, performant web products. He specializes in pattern libraries, responsive layouts, progressive enhancement, and interactive animations, and routinely applies tools like CSS Grid, SVG, state machines, and automated tests to ship reliable interfaces. Jim has a track record of modernizing sites and workflows—from CMS migrations and static archives to scalable image generators and API-driven voting systems—while training non-technical staff to manage content confidently. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a meticulous front-end craft with practical DevOps practices like continuous deployment and Docker, and outside of work he pursues photography and baking, which feed his eye for composition and attention to detail.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at George Mason University
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Github Skills (60)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grandparkla/july4
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Mini website for the Fourth of July event at Grand Park, Los Angeles
Contributions:17 PRs, 129 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
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grandparkla/grandpark
Apr 2017 - Sep 2019
Beta site for grandparkla.org
Contributions:14 PRs, 697 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 4 months
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