About

Jack Lawson is a highly experienced frontend infrastructure engineer with over 15 years of experience. He is currently an Engineering Manager at Inrupt, Inc., where he is responsible for delivery commitments, building relationships between product, customer service, and operations, improving product delivery processes, structuring engineering team capacity, and leading hiring improvements. Jack ensures security and regulatory compliance while providing company-wide metrics. He is still writing code when he can sneak it in on Friday afternoons. Jack has worked with a variety of programming languages, including Node, React, ES7+, Lua, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, and more. He is opinionated about API design, performance, accessibility, and open source. Jack's Github account, github.com/ajacksified, showcases his work and contributions to the open-source community. Jack's past experience includes working as a Sr. Software Engineer and Tech Lead at easypost, where he led the conversion of an existing codebase to React / Redux / Redux-Sagas. He primarily worked on frontend infrastructure, implementing ESLint, Webpack, ES2019, and maintaining and improving build and test systems, while building new products and maintaining existing. Jack mentored team members and designed, prioritized, and managed frontend engineering initiatives. Jack also worked as a Sr. Software Engineer and Team Lead at reddit inc, where he led the web platform team. He architected and implemented an open-source, isomorphic node application for reddit's mobile web, handling very large-scale traffic. Jack's technical skills include Senior Software Engineer, Frontend, infra, Redux, Software Engineer, test, Python, Ruby, Java, Web, and Mobile. He has relevant experience of 19.04 years. Jack is interested in building highly scalable solutions to deliver the most content to the most users as fast as possible.