Tony Ticknor
Founder, CEO at Little Fork
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Ticknor is a seasoned web leader and founder with 13 years of professional experience building pragmatic, accessible digital experiences for brands like JCPenney, the United Nations, Victoria’s Secret, and Delta Airlines. As Founder and CEO of Little Fork, he favors right-fit technology choices and a disdain for over-engineering, translating big ideas into maintainable, people-first web products. His career traces hands-on front-end roots through progressive engineering leadership roles at The Nerdery, Riley Hayes, and UnitedHealth Group, giving him both delivery chops and team-building experience. Tony’s approach blends craft-level attention to design with practical engineering tradeoffs—prioritizing usability across devices and audiences. He’s based in Minneapolis and brings a long-view perspective shaped by having built sites since the early days of the web, which informs his emphasis on longevity and web citizenship. Beyond tech, his background in music management hints at a creative, service-oriented sensibility that guides client work.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Music Management, Music Management at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Github Skills (33)
perfect10
grapesjs9
page-builder9
elementor9
pixel-perfect9
pixel9
draft-js9
drag9
wordpress-plugin9
wysiwyg9
site-builder8
css8
frontend7
methodology6
sitemap6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
littleforkmpls/wp-job-board
Nov 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:19 releases, 15 PRs, 94 pushes in 5 months
apticknor/quarantine.css
Jan 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:8 releases, 25 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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