Potch Claypotch
Game Noodler at Twenty Minute Mile LLC
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPotch Claypotch is a seasoned software engineer and developer advocate with 16 years of experience building delightful front-end experiences and nurturing developer communities from Mozilla to Glitch and Splice. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has progressed from senior engineering roles into architecture and advocacy, most recently running his own indie studio, Twenty Minute Mile, as "Game Noodler." He combines practical UI craftsmanship—evident in contributions to Mozilla’s Fira specimen site—with product-minded leadership that spans frontend architecture and developer relations. Known for making interfaces approachable (and occasionally playful), he brings a knack for turning typography and interaction details into engaging, interactive demos.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Delaware
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
font-face10
fonts10
responsive-design9
javascript5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/Fira
Sep 2013 - Apr 2017
Mozilla's new typeface, used in Firefox OS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Potch primarily focused on the development of the specimen site for the Fira typeface. Their contributions include the initial implementation of CSS and HTML, setting up the basic structure to showcase the different font weights and styles. They also added functionality with the `contenteditable` attribute to allow users to interact with the displayed text. Subsequent commits refined the presentation with a ribbon and media query and incorporated updated font versions.
thunderbirdfirefoxmozillatypeface
mozilla/webext-compat-tool
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
A compatibility-focused web instance of mozilla/addons-linter
Contributions:95 commits, 12 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 3 months
linteraddonsfocusedmozillacompatibility
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