Hey this seems like a great idea and has a lot of promise! If you're looking for a frontend / UI / UX engineer, I'd love to get involved. Either way, best of luck! Let me know - hello (at) joshmleslie.com
Hello,
Senior engineer here with a broad background across the corporate and non-profit worlds. Experience in both engineering and leadership roles, looking for either, but preferring leadership, especially product management.
My background in industrial design and years of fabrication experience have given me a unique vantage compared to your run-of-the-mill software engineer. Read more on my website www.joshmleslie.com
in my exp, there's only a few good UI libraries out there which is part of it, but I think generally the "standard UI" is a thing much like it happened to architecture and then we got the reset of brutalist / modernism, to highly generalize.
Just thinking aloud, choosing between novel, unknown, and interesting UI/UX vs proven, reliable, and commonplace (read: boring) is always a toss up, coming down to the audience. Biz interests usually tend to the latter, which imo is good because you want people using the product, not thinking about how to use the product.
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Despite being a proficient software engineer, I've found myself yearning for a new path. In addition to my day job, I've managed teams at Ace Makerspace, an Oakland-based non-profit. Overseeing multiple teams, I've improved stagnant departments by removing cluttering tools, updating for accessibility, and streamlining expenses. This has honed my leadership and communication skills, which I'm eager to use in a formal setting.
