John Newman
Principal Frontend Engineer at GXL
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Newman is a Principal Frontend Engineer with 14 years of experience blending creative direction and modern web engineering to design and build polished, production-ready user experiences. He’s proficient in React, Redux, Node.js, TypeScript and a wide tooling ecosystem—GraphQL, Express, RabbitMQ, NoSQL, Docker and numerous static site generators and preprocessors—and has led engineering at startups and product teams at InVision and Evernow. As a former Creative Director and co-founder, he uniquely bridges branding, UI craft, and implementation, able to take a visual concept through to running code. His open-source work improving Retina.js demonstrates attention to high-fidelity imagery and front-end performance across CSS preprocessors. Based in Tallahassee, he pairs technical leadership with hands-on development and still finds time for music, writing, and family life.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS International Affairs: Political Science and Anthropology, BS International Affairs: Political Science and Anthropology at Florida State UniversityAA Liberal Studies, AA Liberal Studies at Tallahassee State College
Spanish
Github Skills (6)
css10
javascript10
image-optimization10
stylus9
lessc9
sass9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
strues/retinajs
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
JavaScript, SCSS, Sass, Less, and Stylus helpers for rendering high-resolution image variants
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 66 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily revolved around modifying and improving the functionality of Retina.js, a JavaScript library for handling high-resolution images. Their work included refactoring the core JavaScript code in `src/retina.js` and `dist/retina.js` to optimize image handling and fix existing bugs. The user also added support for background images and expanded the library's capabilities by introducing support for manually indicating a direct URL for a "retina" image and various pixel densities. In addition, the user updated the test environment and updated mixins for different CSS preprocessors.
stylussasscssjavascriptresolution
jgnewman/einlandr
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:82 commits, 45 pushes in 11 months
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