Craig Campbell
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Campbell is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 15 years of experience building both front-end and back-end systems at companies from Vimeo to Fastly and as the founder of a startup. He combines hands-on engineering and product sensibility—evidenced by open-source work on popular JavaScript utilities like Mousetrap and Rainbow and a PHP debugging tool, ChromePHP—focusing on usability, performance and maintainability. Comfortable across the stack, he has driven feature-rich demos, trimmed library size, added robust test coverage, and refactored legacy code to reduce technical debt. His background in Music Technology suggests a creative, systems-minded approach to engineering problems and a knack for crafting elegant developer-facing tools.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Music Technology, Music Technology at New York University
Stackoverflow
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javascript
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jquery
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keyboard-shortcuts
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
keyboard-shortcuts10
console10
shortcuts10
testing10
css10
keyboard10
php10
html10
logging10
syntax-highlighting10
debugging9
jquery9
phpunit7
syntax6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ccampbell/rainbow
Mar 2012 - Sep 2020
Simple syntax highlighting library written in javascript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 628 commits, 23 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Craig's commits focused on adding and modifying demos for the simple syntax highlighting library. They implemented new demos, improved existing ones, and updated links. The commits indicate a focus on enhancing the user interface and providing examples of the library's functionality.
javascriptsyntax-highlighting
ccampbell/mousetrap
Jul 2012 - Jan 2020
Simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 348 commits, 33 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Craig primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and efficiency of the JavaScript keyboard shortcut library, Mousetrap. Their contributions involved removing redundant code, optimizing the library's size, and refactoring components. They added features such as support for array or comma separated key bindings and allowing spaces around the "+" modifier. Furthermore, the user updated the tests by refactoring and adding new test cases to reflect the latest updates.
javascriptkeyboard-shortcutsmousetrapkeyboard
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