Front End Developer
Brandon Herford is a New England-based frontend developer with over 5 years of experience in the software engineering field. In 2023 Brandon enrolled in Launch School, a "mastery based learning" software engineering program, with the goal of moving into Full Stack software development.
Web & Social
Writing
Brandon writes about his design and development work and ideas on his Medium blog.
Pushing code
While working through the online engineering program "Launch School", Brandon also maintains personal projects on GitHub.
Design & Illustration
Brandon has a Bachelors of Fine Art, and maintains a sketch book and Dribbble account with work and ideas.
work
- Suffolk Construction (2021 - 23) Bryntum.js, JavaScript, Playwright end-to-end testing
- "Monitoring CCR Pond Closures" (2021) .NET, JavaScript, CSS
- "Real Time Pore Pressure Monitoring" (2021) .Net, JavaScript, CSS
- BCBS (2017-2018) Drupal 8, CSS, PHP
- United Way (2017) Jekyll, Static Site Generator, CSS
- ColdEeze (2015) Visual Design, wireframes
LAB
Interlinked (2023)
Brandon created Interlinked to investigate Chat GPT, as well as utilize his exhaustive list of developer resource URLs he's collected over the last handful of years.
Cairnternet (2018)
Imagine you are hiking in the mountains. The sun is going down, and the trail is old and hard to follow. Just when you lose sight of your path you see a stack of blocks, stones, and pebbles marking the way.
Outdoors & Vintage
During the Global Coronavirus Pandemic, Brandon began a clothing resale business. Focusing on vintage hiking and outdoors clothing, Brandon made over $1000.00 is his first few months operating.
Brandons Background
Since 2014 I've worked for 3 web development agencies, and 2 multi billion dollar construction contractors. My early experience included building marketing websites for healthcare, nonprofit, and education organizations using WordPress and Drupal. Also Designing web pages with wireframes, and high fidelity mockups. Most recently I have been working on building collaborative software for teams working on large scale construction, architecture, engineering and excavation projects. The technologies I've used include .NET, JavaScript, Python, PHP, frameworks like Angular, and Flask, and libraries like Plotly.js, and Bryntum.js.