Justin Reese
Software Developer at Self-employed
Woodland Park, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Reese is a pragmatic full-stack software developer with 12+ years of experience turning complex business needs into maintainable web products for civic, journalistic, and humanitarian clients. He’s comfortable across the stack—sysadmin on AWS/Heroku/Azure and Linux, back ends in Node, Rails, Django and PHP, and front ends from React to his preferred vanilla HTML/CSS/JS—and has shipped embedded publishing infrastructure used by major outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post. As a long-time independent contractor he blends hands-on implementation with product thinking, having presented platforms at journalism conferences and worked with organizations such as Wikimedia and the Digital Impact Alliance. His open-source contributions range from refining a tiny jQuery table-sorting plugin to improving the DocumentCloud viewer, reflecting a focus on practical, compatibility-minded fixes. With a background in English and recent graduate study in refugee and asylum policy, he brings clear communication and a human-centered perspective to technical design.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Global Policy Studies, Refugee and Asylum Policy, Master of Global Policy Studies, Refugee and Asylum Policy at The LBJ School of Public AffairsBachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at University of Texas at TylerAssociate of Arts - AA, Business Administration and Management, General, Associate of Arts - AA, Business Administration and Management, General at Tyler Junior College
Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
packaging10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
document-viewer10
rails10
front-end-development10
jquery10
package10
ruby10
documentation9
github9
github-repos9
git-repository9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
documentcloud/document-viewer
May 2015 - Feb 2017
The NYTimes Document Viewer
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on improving the Document Viewer's user interface and overall functionality. They made several changes to the templates and JavaScript code, including escaping user input to mitigate security vulnerabilities and updating browser-related links. Significant work involved refactoring and cleaning up debug and test pages, including updating references and streamlining the markup. Furthermore, the user contributed to the codebase by addressing issues related to iframe integration and document loading.
nytimesviewerdocument-viewer
joequery/Stupid-Table-Plugin
Jan 2014 - Jul 2016
A stupidly small and simple jQuery table sorter plugin
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the table sorting plugin. Their work included refining the click event handling for table headers, ensuring proper namespacing, and optimizing the minified JavaScript file. Additionally, the user addressed a critical issue related to loading jQuery over HTTPS to prevent mixed-content errors in web browsers. These changes aimed to improve functionality, performance, and compatibility across various environments.
jqueryjavascriptsortingjquery-pluginsorter
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