John-paul Devries
Principal Engineer at Nike
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn-paul Devries is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience who blends visual design sensibility and pragmatic engineering to improve user-facing systems. Based in Forest Grove, Oregon, he leads front-end and accessibility efforts—most notably contributing UI and styling improvements to the widely used MODX Revolution CMS—and advocates for a more inclusive manager interface. His background spans React, Node, PHP and ActionScript, informed by a BS in Graphic Design and early career work in interactive and print production. He mentors aspiring developers, bringing hands-on coaching experience from Thinkful and a history of freelance and product-focused roles. John-paul’s approach treats design and programming as the same problem space: solving for clarity, maintainability, and collaboration so “hidden” code becomes shared, improved work.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic, Communication Arts, Graphic, Communication Arts at Sierra CollegeBachelor of Science, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Science, Graphic Design at The Art Institute of Portland
Github Skills (6)
css10
user-interface10
front-end-development9
sass7
content-management-system6
content-management6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
modxcms/revolution
May 2013 - Jul 2017
MODX Revolution - Content Management Framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:240 commits, 24 PRs, 180 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:John-paul primarily worked on front-end related tasks, specifically focusing on styling and improving the visual presentation of the MODX Revolution manager interface. They addressed issues in the CSS, making minor adjustments to the header, footer, and search results components. They also implemented changes to the navigation bar to improve aesthetics, including color adjustments. Their work centered around improving the user interface and addressing visual inconsistencies.
modx-revolutionmodxphpcontent-managementcontent-management-system
jpdevries/matboard
Dec 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:104 commits, 89 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
securitytoolkitsconceptual
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