Jim Thoburn
User Experience Engineer at Render
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Thoburn is a Los Angeles-based User Experience Engineer with 13 years of experience delivering design-driven web interfaces. He currently helps Render bridge design and engineering, building pattern libraries, prototypes, accessible UIs, and high-performance experiences while embracing progressive enhancement and automation. His career spans government, nonprofit, and media organizations—including LA2050, City of Santa Monica, GOOD Worldwide, and Penske Media—where he has led design-system components, responsive layouts, and API-driven features such as Gutenberg blocks and interactive music players. He brings a full-stack sensibility to front-end work, leveraging CSS Grid, SVG, React and Vue, automated tests, continuous deployment, and state machines to ship reliable, scalable interfaces. Off duty, he enjoys photography and baking, and he earned his BS in Computer Science from George Mason University.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at George Mason University
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Github Skills (67)
node-js10
github10
octokit-js10
state-machine10
deno10
octokit10
javascript10
sdk10
gestures10
ats10
typescript10
isomorphic10
nodejs10
health10
snowpack10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grandparkla/july4
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Mini website for the Fourth of July event at Grand Park, Los Angeles
Contributions:17 PRs, 129 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
losparklos-angelesgrand
grandparkla/grandpark
Apr 2017 - Sep 2019
Beta site for grandparkla.org
Contributions:14 PRs, 697 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 4 months
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