Simon Wex
Sr. Product Manager at Adobe
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarSimon Wex is a senior product manager and engineering leader with 16 years of experience who blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship with strategic product leadership at Adobe. He spent a decade at Mozilla in roles from software engineer to Director of Engineering and Director of Software, leading Webmaker and developer-focused tooling. An entrepreneur and former CTO who founded Zeep Mobile and ran a consulting firm, Simon brings startup grit alongside large-company execution. He has contributed notable open-source front-end work—overhauling the UI for TogetherJS and integrating UI components in Mozilla’s Appmaker—demonstrating a continued focus on usable, collaborative web interfaces. Based in Revelstoke, BC, he pairs deep UI/UX roots (starting as a graphic/UI designer) with product strategy to ship pragmatic, user-centered web experiences.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
bootstrap210
javascript10
bootstra10
web-components10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
bootstrap10
web-component10
angular10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-appmaker/appmaker
Jul 2013 - Nov 2015
Appmaker was an exploration in making app authoring available to non-developers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:723 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:The commits show the user adding and integrating JavaScript libraries such as Angular, and Ceci, and working on components. The code differences involve the addition and modification of JavaScript files. The user's focus is implementing and integrating UI elements with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create forms.
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jsfiddle/togetherjs
Jan 2012 - Jan 2019
A service for your website that makes it surprisingly easy to collaborate in real-time.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:201 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project by overhauling the UI with Twitter Bootstrap. They modified the HTML structure, including the addition of a navigation bar, share modal, and a sidebar. Additionally, the user implemented Javascript functionality for dynamic resizing of elements and added click handlers.
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