Nick Ford
Software Engineer at Amazon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNick Ford is a software engineer with a decade of experience building user-focused web and data products, currently contributing to Amazon’s Business Data Technologies in Boston. He blends front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by meaningful open-source contributions to freezeframe.js that improved jQuery integration and UX—with backend and data-driven work at PillPack and Amazon. His background in graphic design and UX informs a pragmatic approach to developer and customer-facing interfaces, enabling him to bridge design and engineering effectively. Comfortable shipping at scale in large organizations and startups alike, he brings a track record of improving libraries, fixing edge-case bugs, and updating real-world examples to make tools more robust and approachable.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design at Suffolk University
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
css-selectors9
vue-resource6
html6
iframe6
css6
asp-net-mvc6
vue6
apache6
vuejs26
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ctrl-freaks/freezeframe.js
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
freezeframe.js is a library that pauses animated .gifs and enables them to animate on mouse hover / mouse click / touch event, or with trigger / release functions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 264 commits, 45 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick's commits primarily focus on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the freezeframe.js library. They made significant contributions by allowing access to the plugin methods from the jQuery object. The user also addressed an issue related to jQuery instances with no matched elements and fixed issues related to the underlying loop used. The user also made updates to the example page by updating the images used.
touch-eventvuegifsanimated-gifsjavascript
nickforddev/vue-models
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:113 commits, 56 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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