Shane Friedman
Engineering & Architecture at Handle with Care Collective
Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Friedman is an engineering and architecture lead with 11 years of experience designing and building complex, user-facing systems for both startups and tech giants. He specializes in collaborative rich-text editors and content management tooling, having led the New York Times team that built the newsroom’s editor and authored the @nytimes/react-prosemirror integration. Comfortable across TypeScript, React, ProseMirror, Node.js, and cloud-native stacks, Shane pairs hands-on implementation with standards and tooling advocacy—he drove TypeScript migrations and cross-company JS best practices at the Times. His background includes building CMS and curation platforms for YouTube Music and Amazon Music, giving him deep product-focused experience in editorial and content workflows. Now leading Engineering & Architecture at Handle with Care Collective, he does remote contract engagements to reset product strategy, tackle technical debt, or ship new products. Based in Hopewell, NJ, he blends newsroom-scale collaboration experience with startup agility and prefers contract work only.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
npm-package10
rsa-cryptography10
schema10
api10
nodejs10
mongodb10
sublime10
user-interface10
headless-cms10
frontend10
hardening10
cms10
windows10
sound-synthesis10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
nytimes/oak-byo-react-prosemirror-redux
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes in 9 months
nytimesprosemirrorreactredux
smoores-dev/storyteller
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Mirror of https://gitlab.com/smoores/storyteller
Contributions:352 pushes, 31 branches, 64 tags in 1 year 3 months
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