John Riordan
Senior Designer UI Engineer at Blitz
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Riordan is a Senior Designer UI Engineer with 11 years of experience blending product design and front-end engineering to ship polished desktop and web experiences from concept through implementation. Based in Los Angeles, he grew from lead web developer and producer roles into engineering at Blitz, where he designs UX and now engineers UI features for a desktop app. A self-taught developer with a BFA in Graphic Design, he pairs visual craft with practical full-stack skills—having owned design, production, and development for gaming education at LolClass. He’s a dedicated problem-solver and VR enthusiast whose background as a former professional Halo player informs a strong empathy for competitive gaming users and attention to interactive detail.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design at Saginaw Valley State University
Github Skills (16)
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jekyll3
sveltekit3
wordpress-themes3
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
john-riordan/d4-twitch-race
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Diablo 4 launch twitch streamers
Contributions:15 PRs, 154 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 3 months
john-riordan/personal-site
Jan 2022 - May 2025
Codebase for the johnr.io site
Contributions:17 PRs, 58 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 4 months
codebaseastrojekyll
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