Jordan Checkman
Senior Manager, User Experience Design at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Checkman is a Senior Manager of User Experience Design with 11 years of product and design leadership experience, currently shaping UX strategy at Riot Games in Los Angeles. He blends hands-on front-end engineering roots—authoring foundational code for the Please.js color library—with senior design management, mentoring designers while scaling complex product experiences. His background spans product management and engineering at Kargo and founding a web studio, giving him a rare fluency across design, data-driven product strategy, and browser-first implementation. Known for creating "virtuous loops," he focuses on systems that continuously improve both user outcomes and team craft.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Drexel University
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Github Skills (8)
hex10
javascript10
lib10
color-theory10
javascript-framework6
coffeescript6
css3
html3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Fooidge/PleaseJS
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
JavaScript Library for creating random pleasing colors and color schemes
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the initial development of the Please.js library, a JavaScript library for generating random pleasing colors and color schemes. Their work included creating the core functionality, including the foundational code and the large color data object. They also refactored the code to improve readability, and addressed some minor bugs. The user performed a small code cleanup, standardizing the code to the Carmack's style guide.
color-schemesjavascriptjavascript-libraryschemes
Fooidge/please
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:51 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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