Marc Grabanski
Founder, CEO & UI Developer at MJG // Frontend Masters
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Grabanski is a seasoned front-end leader and founder with 18 years of experience building polished UI products and developer-facing education. As CEO and UI Developer of Frontend Masters, he has grown a self-funded company serving over 10,000 paying customers at top companies, while remaining hands-on in design and implementation. His roots in open source include creating the jQuery UI datepicker and contributions to the jQuery UI project, and his GitHub shows practical UI improvements from a modern TodoMVC to the Frontend Masters bootcamp site. Marc combines consultancy experience delivering complex SVG-driven interfaces and data visualizations for clients like Room & Board, Dow Jones and Ford with a developer-first ethos focused on maintainability and UX. Based in Minneapolis, he helps developers level up through tooling, courses, and code, favoring direct developer connections over intermediaries.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science / Information Systems, BA, Computer Science / Information Systems at The College of St. Scholastica
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Github Skills (13)
jquery-ui10
html10
css10
js10
javascript10
vanilla-javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
jquery10
todomvc10
responsive-design9
datepicker6
react6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
1Marc/modern-todomvc-vanillajs
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
TodoMVC with Modern (ES6+), Vanilla JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 107 commits, 22 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the TodoMVC application. Their contributions include adding features like double-click editing, standardizing keyboard events, and refactoring code for clarity. They also addressed bugs, refactored the code for maintainability, and removed unnecessary CSS files. This indicates a focus on improving the user experience and refining the application's overall performance.
javascriptvanillajsvanilla-jses6vanilla-javascript
FrontendMasters/bootcamp
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
Frontend Masters Bootcamp
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 14 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on improving the front-end aspects of the "Frontend Masters Bootcamp" repository. Their contributions included making the website more responsive by updating CSS styles. They also updated the images paths to absolute domain paths and removed an inline JavaScript event from the HTML. They also worked on the forms adding new changes, to make them function.
reactmastersjavascriptfrontendreactjs
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