TJ Egan
Front End Developer - Carbon Design System at IBM
Town of Clifton Park, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTJ Egan is a Front End Developer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to IBM’s Carbon Design System where he blends UI/UX research with hands-on front-end implementation. He specializes in HTML, CSS/Sass, modern JavaScript (ES6/Babel), React, and build tooling like Gulp and Webpack, and has a track record of fixing UI bugs, improving component docs, and enhancing accessibility and iconography on the high-profile carbon-website. Prior experience includes large-scale legacy system work at the NYS Office of Information Technology Services and web/interface design at Siena College, giving him a practical appreciation for both modern interfaces and mission-critical back-end systems. Comfortable leading or collaborating on teams, he excels at translating client pain points into better user experiences and coordinated project delivery. Based in Clifton Park, NY, he pairs strong communication skills with a continual appetite for learning new languages and techniques. A detail-oriented problem solver, he often focuses on small UI fixes that yield outsized improvements in clarity and usability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Siena College
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (12)
gatsbyjs10
uid10
carbon-lang10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
carbon-copy10
react10
gatsby10
accessibility9
css9
html8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-website
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:402 reviews, 92 commits, 149 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:TJ primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Carbon Design System website. Their work involved fixing UI issues, updating component documentation, and enhancing the user experience. They addressed bugs related to component rendering and display, including fixing form group warnings and updating color tables. The user was also involved in the implementation of new features, such as updating the banner and fixing issues related to icons, specifically ensuring correct display of glyph-only icons.
carbon-design-systemgatsbycarbonibm
tw15egan/carbon
Apr 2017 - Aug 2024
The component library behind Carbon Design System
Contributions:1 PR, 2157 pushes, 1243 branches in 7 years 5 months
reactcarbon-design-systemdesign-systemcarboncomponent-library
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