Michael Rose
User Interface Designer User Experience Manager at Avantor
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, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (17)
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 (11)
Github contributions (5)
mmistakes/made-mistakes-jekyll
Jan 2013 - Sep 2019
Deprecated source for mademistakes.com. Previously built with Jekyll, Gulp, and 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.
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mmistakes/so-simple-theme
Jun 2013 - Sep 2021
A simple Jekyll theme for words and pictures.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 783 commits, 90 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael added a media query polyfill script to the project's JavaScript assets. They also removed a link from the featured image in the layouts for posts and pages. Further contributions include fixing a bottom-border issue in the CSS for the button class and adding the author's photo in the post and page layouts while also adjusting the header's alignment. These changes suggest a focus on improving the theme's responsiveness and visual presentation.
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