Samuel Cole
Chief Technology Officer at Lemontree Foods
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Cole is a founding engineer and Chief Technology Officer with 15 years of experience building web products from scratch and scaling engineering teams across startups and mission-driven organizations. Based in New York, he blends hands-on full-stack development with strategic technology leadership at Lemontree Foods after senior engineering roles at ActBlue Technical Services and Kickstarter. His work includes thoughtful front-end craftsmanship—contributing enhancements and plugins to the WYMeditor project that improved extensibility and rich-text selection—and a track record of shipping pragmatic, maintainable systems. With a multidisciplinary academic background in literature, creative writing, and computer science, he brings a user-focused sensibility to complex technical problems and a knack for turning ambiguous ideas into production-ready features.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Multidisciplinary Literature Creative Writing Computer Science, Multidisciplinary Literature Creative Writing Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
jquery10
plugin10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
html8
css7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wymeditor/wymeditor
Jan 2011 - Oct 2011
Pure js cross-browser WYSIWYM editor with a focus on the clean separation of content and styling.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on improving the WYMeditor's codebase, addressing linting issues and enhancing functionality through the addition of custom commands and plugins. They implemented a custom commands option, enabling users to create custom buttons with specific actions. Further, they integrated a resizable plugin and a rangy plugin for improved text selection and editing capabilities.
cross-browserpurejswysiwym
samuelcole/jquery-livesearch
Aug 2010 - May 2016
Basic tools for an autocomplete or filtering selections with an input over AJAX.
Contributions:116 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 9 months
ajaxautocomplete
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