Utah Newman
Software Engineer, Frontend at brightwheel
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUtah Newman is a front-end software engineer based in Oakland with 11 years of experience building responsive, accessible UIs and shipping readable, reusable code at startups and small teams. Currently at brightwheel, Utah brings deep Rails-era front-end experience from roles at Drift and NIRD, combined with modern JavaScript training from General Assembly. A former biology instructor and master's-level scientist, Utah pairs patient teaching skills with an engineer’s attention to detail—useful for mentoring teammates and debugging legacy code. Known for community-mindedness and a sense of humor, they’ve contributed to open-source projects and collaborative summer-of-code efforts early in their career. Comfortable across Haml/Sass/Bootstrap and contemporary front-end stacks, Utah excels at turning complex UX requirements into polished, cross-browser interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology at The Evergreen State CollegeJavascript Development Certificate, Javascript Development, Javascript Development Certificate, Javascript Development at General AssemblyMaster's degree, Biology, Master's degree, Biology at University of KentuckyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History at University of Puget Sound
Github Skills (12)
ada10
rails8
federated8
ruby7
diaspora6
p2p5
privacy5
immigration5
javascript4
css4
django3
react2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
theutahkate/utah-sinatra
May 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 29 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 6 months
theutahkate/devskeet
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:12 PRs, 19 pushes, 8 branches in 29 days
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