John Brittain
Software Engineer at Visual impressions
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Brittain is a self-taught software engineer with over 20 years designing and building web experiences, and 13 years in professional roles including his current position at Visual Impressions. He has built large social platforms with 200k+ members featuring messaging, forums, content sharing and rich UX, and he runs his own long-standing project Skem9.com. A front-end specialist in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, he also brings PHP/MySQL backend experience, AJAX, Node.js exposure and familiarity editing modern frameworks like Laravel, React, Vue and Angular. John is an active open-source contributor who improved tooltip and popover UX in the widely used Bootstrap project and enhanced mobile search and editor UX in LinkStack. Based in Charlotte, NC, he combines a pragmatic, hands-on engineering style with a knack for making complex interactive features "just work."
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
2,549reputation
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39answers
6questions
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
twitter-bootstrap10
bootstrap10
laravel-mix10
css10
responsive-design10
laravel10
tooltip10
css-frameworks10
html10
bootstra10
tooltips10
dropdown-menu9
jquery9
php9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
twbs/bootstrap
Dec 2012 - Jul 2022
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on improving the user experience and functionality of tooltips and popovers within the Bootstrap framework. Their contributions included fixing tooltip toggle functionality, adding container options for tooltips and popovers, and updating documentation to reflect the changes. They also updated the documentation to use `data-toggle` attributes instead of `rel` attributes for tooltips and popovers.
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LinkStackOrg/LinkStack
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
LinkStack - the ultimate solution for creating a personalized & professional profile page. Showcase all your important links in one place, forget the limitation of one link on social media. Set up your personal site on your own server with just a few clicks.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the frontend development of the LinkStack project. Their work involved enhancing the user interface, specifically focusing on improving the user search functionality and table responsiveness for mobile devices. They made style and layout adjustments, switching from inline styles to CSS classes, and configuring the Ace Editor for dark mode and smooth scrolling. Additionally, the user updated the sidebar navigation for improved user experience.
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