Jorge Villalobos
New England, USA, United States
Summary
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RockstarJorge Villalobos is a Principal Frontend Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance, headless, modular web applications and resilient marketing sites. He specializes in front-end architecture and "designing-in-code," combining deep expertise in React, Ember, TypeScript/JavaScript, PostCSS and advanced cross-browser, responsive, and accessible HTML/CSS techniques. Jorge has led delivery of complex initiatives—white-label headless frameworks, booking workflows for Fortune 500 partners, and custom end-to-end testing—while mentoring teams and improving deployment and performance workflows. His open-source touches include focused front-end contributions to Discourse, reflecting a pragmatic attention to UI polish and maintainability. Based in Somerville, MA, he pairs startup agility with enterprise-scale discipline and a long track record of turning design intent into production-ready, high-performance experiences.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
discourse10
ember10
html9
ruby5
rails5
ruby-rails5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 14 PRs, 10 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Discourse platform. Their contributions involved cleaning up and debugging styles, specifically targeting `.nav-stacked` components and user interface elements within the application. They also removed unnecessary elements and normalized indentation, while also extracted and refactored CSS pertaining to the user-stream-item component. Further contributions included no-content message displays and modifying navigation elements.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
minusfive/knucklehead
Jun 2023 - Aug 2025
Mnemonic, macOS-optimized ergonomic columnar layout for corne-style 42 key split keyboards, designed to ease the transition from Apple ANSI keyboards.
Contributions:1 review, 67 PRs, 397 pushes in 2 years 2 months
macoscorneish-zenkeymap-drawerzmkzmk-config
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