Jonathan Lim-breitbart
Information Systems Analyst
Pinole, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Lim-breitbart is an Information Systems Analyst and front-end web developer with 15 years of experience building educational technology at UC Berkeley’s WISE project, where he leads UX and feature design for online inquiry curricula. He blends cognitive-science-informed design (BA Brown) with technical mastery from an MSIS at UC Berkeley to create engaging, research-backed learning tools and interactive science content for middle and high school classrooms. Known for pragmatic front-end work—such as enhancing interactivity and usability in open-source UI plugins—he focuses on intuitive behaviors like click-to-close tooltips that improve real classroom workflows. Jonathan pairs hands-on development with teacher- and researcher-facing support, translating classroom needs into polished web applications and documentation. Based in Pinole, CA, he also supports civic-education initiatives like Y-PLAN, applying his UX-first approach to community-facing platforms.
15 years of coding experience
Masters, Masters of Information Management and Systems, Masters, Masters of Information Management and Systems at University of California, BerkeleyBA, Cognitive Science, BA, Cognitive Science at Brown University
English
Github Skills (7)
jquery-plugin10
javascript10
jquery10
xhtml9
html9
css9
user-interface9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stevenbenner/jquery-powertip
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
:speech_balloon: A jQuery plugin that creates hover tooltips.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user interaction of the jQuery PowerTip plugin. They implemented features such as custom event handling for opening and closing tooltips, providing greater flexibility. The user also refined the tooltip behavior by adding functionality to close tooltips upon clicking outside them, making the UI more intuitive. They also updated examples and documentation to reflect the added features.
balloonjqueryjavascripttooltipsspeech-balloon
I-Sparkle-Germany/I-Sparkle-Client
Nov 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 review, 25 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 9 months
sparkleclient-side-codeclient-side
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