Mason Jennings
Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMason Jennings is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building front-end UX and shopping products at Pinterest. He has driven core user flows, migrated a Python/Django app to React, and reduced password reset help requests by 25% through product-focused engineering. An active contributor to Pinterest’s open-source Gestalt React UI library, he ships component-level UX improvements, error handling and stronger documentation to improve developer experience. Mason combines practical full‑stack skills (React, JavaScript, Python, Ruby/Rails) with a BA in Architecture from UPenn and web development training at Flatiron, bringing a design-minded approach to interface problems. That mix of design background and measurable product impact helps him turn nuanced UX needs into reliable, maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at The Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Architecture, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Architecture at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/gestalt
Feb 2018 - May 2022
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 24 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mason primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of React UI components within the Gestalt design system. Their work included adding new features like error handling to components such as TextArea, TextField, and Checkbox. The user also focused on improving the user experience by updating the Flyout caret design and improving the documentation with code examples. Additionally, they made enhancements to the component documentation to link the component props to examples.
reactlanguage-designjavascriptreact-ui-componentspinterest
mminute/mminuteInventory
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
Personal Inventory Tracker
Contributions:36 PRs, 20 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 9 months
inventoryreacttrackerpersonal-inventoryinventory-tracker
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