Justin Mccraw
Senior Software Engineer I at The Information
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Mccraw is a Chicago-based senior software engineer with 12 years building web experiences, tracing his start back to the dial-up era and a printout of HTML tags. He’s moved through editorial and product-focused roles at outlets like ESPN, New York Magazine, and The Information, blending front-end craftsmanship with design-led thinking. Justin has a track record of shipping at scale in fast-moving news and commerce environments, and has progressed from design technologist to senior engineering roles across New York and Chicago. His background in journalism and Japanese-informed computer science gives him a rare mix of editorial judgment, cross-cultural perspective, and technical fluency that helps teams turn complex content into delightful, performant web products.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Information Science Japanese, BA Computer Information Science Japanese at University of OregonMA Journalism and Mass Communications, MA Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
550reputation
50kreached
20answers
2questions
Github Skills (30)
twitter9
grid8
curl6
api6
php6
facebook-share6
css6
jquery6
facebook6
javascript6
webex6
game-engine6
nodejs4
node-sass4
audio3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jmccraw/videojs-socialShare
Dec 2015 - Jan 2021
Adds social sharing buttons to the video widget for Facebook and Twitter.
Contributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 1 month
twitter
jmccraw/videojs-suggestedVideoEndcap
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
Adds a screen at the end of the video with a grid of suggested video links to watch.
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 10 months
videolinksto-watchgridsuggested
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