Pascal Balthrop
Web Developer at Coast App
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPascal Balthrop is a seasoned web developer with 12 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on practice dating back to the pre-JavaScript era. Based in New York, he builds reliable, detail-oriented front-end experiences and has shipped products at startups and scale-ups including about.me, Broadly, Vendasta, and currently Coast App. He brings a big-picture mindset paired with a knack for subtle UX and security fixes, demonstrated by contributions to the popular medium-editor open-source project where he improved toolbar behavior and patched vulnerabilities. A former graphic design student turned English major, Pascal blends visual sensibility with clear communication and a wry sense of curiosity that surfaces in his work. He’s comfortable moving between consultancy and in-house roles, translating ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, test-backed solutions. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful problem-solving and code that’s as robust as it is usable.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at The University of Southern Mississippi
Github Skills (7)
editors10
contenteditable10
javascript10
wysiwyg10
editor10
rich-text-editor9
testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
yabwe/medium-editor
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 2 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily contributed to the frontend aspects of the Medium Editor project. Their work included enhancing the editor's functionality by adding features like setting toolbar positions and addressing vulnerabilities. They also added and modified tests to ensure proper functionality and security against potential exploits. The commits focus on improving the editor's behavior and reliability.
contenteditableapitext-editingwysiwygjavascript
pascalpp/FreeRuler
Jun 2015 - Feb 2021
A ruler application for Mac OS X
Contributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 267 commits in 5 years 8 months
mac-osrulermacos-xmacos
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