Todd Parker
Partner at Filament Group Inc.
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Parker is a founding partner of Filament Group in Boston with 17+ years designing highly functional, accessible, and device-agnostic interfaces across mobile, desktop, kiosks, and TVs. He led the jQuery Mobile project and served on the jQuery board, contributing demonstrative docs and polished demos to flagship projects like jQuery Mobile and jQuery UI. A co-author of Designing With Progressive Enhancement and contributor to the jQuery Cookbook, he blends practical front-end development with a strong advocacy for progressive enhancement, accessibility, and responsive design. Todd’s work often focuses on improving developer-facing documentation and cross-browser UI consistency—evident in contributions that refined demos, fixed styling issues, and standardized components such as custom selects. Based in Somerville, MA, he pairs agency leadership with hands-on engineering and public speaking, bringing design sensibility to open-source and client-facing products.
17 years of coding experience
Oakmont Regional High SchoolBS, BS at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
jquery10
cross-browser10
jquery-mobile10
documentation10
front-end-development9
customisation9
forms9
custom-theme9
customizer9
mobile6
android6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jquery-archive/jquery-mobile
Oct 2010 - Apr 2013
jQuery Mobile Framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1211 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily contributed to the development of the jQuery Mobile framework's documentation site. Their work focused on creating examples and documentation pages, as indicated by the commit messages detailing the addition of new pages, updates to existing examples, improvements to content, and fixes to broken links and styling issues. The user demonstrated an understanding of the framework's widgets, API, and theming system through the creation of various demos, including those involving panels, transitions, and forms.
mobile-frameworkjqueryjquery-mobilejavascriptandroid
filamentgroup/select-css
Sep 2014 - Dec 2018
Cross-browser styles for consistent select element styling
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily focused on refining the styling of a custom select element. Their contributions involved updating and adjusting CSS code to achieve cross-browser compatibility and improve the visual appearance of the select element. They removed redundant code and updated the demo markup, ensuring the visual presentation of the select element was consistent across different browsers. Further, they modified the font size for improved display.
cross-browserbrowsercssconsistentpurecss
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