Michael Rose
Web Content Administrator
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Michael Rose is a seasoned web content administrator and front-end developer with over 25 years of creative and technical experience and 13 years in digital roles focused on content, email marketing, and catalog production. Based in Buffalo, he currently manages web content for Avantor after a long tenure at VWR, bringing deep expertise in Jekyll-powered sites, responsive CSS, and accessible UI tweaks. An active open-source contributor, Michael has improved widely used Jekyll themes—adding configurable ads, reading-time features, responsive polyfills, and UX refinements—that show a knack for pragmatic, user-focused front-end engineering. He blends design sensibility from a BFA with practical DevOps-era tooling (Gulp, Netlify) to deliver polished, maintainable sites and documentation. Colleagues rely on him for subtle but impactful improvements—like breadcrumb fixes, image credits, and layout optimizations—that elevate user experience across projects.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
css10
responsive-design10
sc10
scs10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
html10
algolia9
site-design9
searching9
ui-design9
github-pages9
website-design9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mmistakes/made-mistakes-jekyll
Jan 2013 - Sep 2019
Source for my website and blog (Jekyll + Gulp + Netlify)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4126 commits, 676 PRs, 1190 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the website and blog built using Jekyll, Gulp, and Netlify. They made a series of changes to styling and layouts, which indicates a focus on user interface development. The commits show modifications to CSS files and template layouts, suggesting they worked on enhancing the website's visual appearance and user experience.
jekyll-blogjekyllgulpnetlify
mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Jul 2013 - Oct 2019
:triangular_ruler: Jekyll theme for building a personal site, blog, project documentation, or portfolio.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:106 releases, 33 reviews, 439 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on implementing and enhancing the theme's layout and appearance. They introduced optional reading time to the single layout, added reading time to archive and single layouts, included a clock icon, and fixed issues with breadcrumb alignment. They also made aesthetic changes such as updating colors, labels, adjusting font sizes, and fixing the collapsing of floating elements, demonstrating a good grasp of CSS.
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