Justin McCraw
Software Engineer bringing a design eye to fullstack development
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Skills
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Education
About
A web developer with magazine journalism experience, I am passionate about exploring new technologies and the digital experience. I currently perform fullstack web development using React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Sass, and JavaScript. I have a passion for ensuring software is beautiful, usable, and accessible. Let’s chat business strategy, user experience, and how to make the internet cool again.
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Experience (19 roles)
Full-time · 1 yr 11 mos
Current2 roles · Sep 2023 - Present
Senior Software Engineer I
CurrentSoftware Engineer III
• Helped engineer The Information’s website rebrand • Won “Overall Best” at our office bake-off • Won a “Red Phone” award, an internal acknowledgement
Software Engineer II
• Helped maintain 13 Ruby on Rails and Node.js APIs, along with three other developers, handling some 5.6 million transactions per day, and an employee-facing website averaging 2.5 million views/month • Led implementation and development on a Rails project that enabled our Community team to increase...
2 roles · Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
Senior Front End Editorial Designer (Web Developer)
• Developed over a dozen custom editorial features per year across The Undefeated, FiveThirtyEight, and ESPN — one of which allegedly made Bob Iger cry • Introduced Adobe Analytics (Omniture) custom event tracking to projects and analyzed data to inform design, increasing click-through rates on rela...
Design Technologist (Web Developer)
• Developed interactive editorial features and updates for The Undefeated, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN, and 30 for 30 Podcasts • Implemented a new build process for CSS, decreasing site load time on The Undefeated by 1 second • Introduced Adobe Analytics custom event tracking to feature projects for the f...
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Education (2)
Kent State University
2009 - 2011
Activities and societies: Online News Association, Association for Computing Machinery, Asian-American Journalists Association, Delta Lambda Phi Social National Fraternity Alpha Psi Chapter at Kent State University
University of Oregon
2005 - 2009
Activities and societies: Association for Computing Machinery member, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Alliance Events Coordinator (2006), webmaster (2006-2009) and member. Studied abroad three months at Senshu University in Tokyo, Japan, summer 2008
Skills (39)
Frontend
No-Code Tooling
Product Management
Other
Certifications (1)▼
Systems Thinking
Publications (1)▼
Using a Tablet to Understand the Tactile Map Techniques of the Visually Impaired
Jan 1, 2009
Languages (1)▼
Honors & Awards (6)▼
Online Journalism Awards Judge
Issued by Online Journalism Awards · Jun 2018
Associated with ESPN As a first-round judge for the Online Journalism Awards (OJA), I read over and critiqued the efforts of 30 different articles and packages of content to decide which should progress to the next round of the competition. This included judging the works on their journalistic content, as well as how they incorporated new media techniques, mobile support, and a social media presence. (2018 and 2019)
Published Acknowledgement
Issued by Jacqueline Marino
Associated with Kent State University Honored in the acknowledgements section of the book "White Coats: Three Journeys Through an American Medical School" by Jacqueline Marino.
ASME Ellie Awards Judge, 2017
Issued by American Society of Magazine Editors · Jan 2017
Associated with ESPN Selected as one judge on a panel of participants from the magazine industry to pick the Ellie Awards’ Multimedia category.
National Association of Black Journalists Art and Design Award
Issued by National Association of Black Journalists · Aug 2019
Associated with ESPN Recognition for art & design of the special “State of the Black Athlete” magazine issue, powered by The Undefeated, along with Chin Wang, Rami Moghadam, and Beth Stojkov. Custom editorial development and bottom recirc to showcase the profiles and artwork for this project across multiple links.
Published Acknowledgement
Issued by The Undefeated · Dec 2019
Associated with ESPN Honored in the acknowledgements section of the book “The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up The World” by the staff of The Undefeated and the book editor, Steve Reiss.
Best Custom Advertising
Issued by Digiday Awards · Mar 2017
Associated with New York Magazine New York magazine won Best Custom Advertising for its “Flashback” campaign for HBO’s “Vinyl.” I performed development, including coding the custom homepage takeover, landing page, and sponsored posts. https://twitter.com/DigidayAwards/status/845082391563653120
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