Westbrook Johnson
Founding Frontend Engineer at Reve
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWestbrook Johnson is a founding frontend engineer with 13 years of experience building polished, accessible web interfaces and design systems, most recently leading frontend efforts at Reve after five years as a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe. He specializes in web components, UI libraries and practical browser engineering—having led Spectrum Web Components at Adobe and contributed to high-profile OSS projects like floating-ui and web-platform-tests. Westbrook pairs product-focused design collaboration with deep technical skills in CSS, DOM APIs, and testing to ship robust, low-capability-device-friendly experiences. He’s equally comfortable improving developer tooling and accessibility (Storybook addons, visual regression, ESLint fixes) as he is refining component internals and build exports. A former music BA turned front-end architect, he brings a creative sensibility to interaction design and a track record of mentoring teams and unifying disparate front-end codebases.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Music, BA Music at Bennington College
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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polymer
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Github Skills (45)
accessibility10
lit-element10
javascript10
acc10
storybook10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
testing10
css10
test-runner10
polymer10
web-components10
system-design10
webpages10
ui-design10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/spectrum-web-components
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Spectrum Web Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1679 reviews, 1913 commits, 3343 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Westbrook's contributions primarily involve the Spectrum Web Components library, specifically focusing on UI component improvements and story implementations. The commits demonstrate the addition of label icon buttons, support for ActionButtons as children in action groups, and removing unused code. The user’s work involves modifying test and story code within the "action-bar" and "action-group" packages, which suggests a focus on UI-related tasks.
adobespectrumwebcomponentsweb-components
open-wc/open-wc
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Open Web Components: guides, tools and libraries for developing web components.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 132 commits, 254 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Westbrook primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project by modifying and adding features related to web components. Their work included fixing eslint configurations, adding deep dives to the documentation, and adding and updating Storybook addons for accessibility. The user also updated dependencies in the project and ensured the correct implementation of building-rollup and building-webpack. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the developer experience and accessibility of the web components.
lit-elementlitdevelopingweb-componentselements
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