Nic Barajas
Senior Product Manager at CNET
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Barajas is a Senior Product Manager with over a decade of experience designing and delivering content management systems and thoughtful web experiences for high-traffic publishers. He blends technical fluency in front-end technologies like React and GraphQL with an MFA in Interaction Design to lead cross-functional teams from prototype to production. Nic has repeatedly improved editorial workflows at scale—rebuilding CMS platforms for multi-brand sites, designing The New York Times’ article experience and collections tagging system, and launching AMP-style Web Stories in partnership with Google. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and consultant, he pairs user empathy and information architecture expertise to simplify complex editorial problems. Notably, his work spans newsroom migrations, large-archive content ingestion, and product initiatives that remain in use at major publications today.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism, Journalism at Poynter InstituteMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Interaction Design, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Interaction Design at School of Visual ArtsB.S., Communication Management and Design, B.S., Communication Management and Design at Ithaca College
Github Skills (12)
react10
react-components9
material-ui9
rss9
material-design9
ios8
react-component-library8
macos8
rss-reader8
jekyll6
apple-news4
firefox3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
irace/prospectheightsbk.com
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Help local Prospect Heights businesses!
Contributions:209 commits, 33 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 3 months
businesses
nicbarajas/sva-ixd-thesis
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:87 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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