Jeff Cross
Co-Founder, CEO at Nx
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeff Cross is a founder-CEO and engineer with 14 years of experience who co-founded Nrwl and leads Nx (nx.dev), helping enterprise teams lift developer productivity through consulting, mentorship and tooling. He served as a Tech Lead on Google’s Angular team and is an active open-source contributor to cornerstone projects like Angular, Angular CLI, Protractor and AngularFire, shaping both developer workflows and framework capabilities. His work bridges front-end and server-side concerns — from server-side prerendering and zone.js patches to build/release automation and electron packaging for Nx Console. Equally comfortable in QA and release engineering, he’s known for improving testing infrastructure and automating complex build pipelines. Based in Gilbert, Arizona, he blends startup founder grit with deep hands-on engineering across the full web stack.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (65)
e2e-testing10
benchmark10
testing10
websocket10
performance-testing10
websockets-client10
build-automation10
bootstra10
firebase10
client-websocket10
nxos10
javascript10
broccoli10
front-end-development10
html10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
angular/angularjs.org
Jun 2013 - Sep 2015
code for angularjs.org site
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `angularjs.org` website. Their contributions included fixing PHP error reporting, updating Angular and related library versions, and implementing a clustering update mechanism. They also added end-to-end tests for the website and made various UI improvements, including protocol-agnostic file inclusions.
angularjsangular
deployd/deployd
Nov 2011 - Jun 2014
a toolkit for building realtime APIs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 4 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing the dashboard interface of the deployd project, a toolkit for building realtime APIs. Their work involved refactoring the application's navigation by wiring it to the plugins and models services. This included the creation of UI layouts, styling, and implementation of dynamic components for a more user-friendly experience. The user also implemented features to handle item editing within collections, adding core functionality.
apirealtimeclient-libraryjavascriptwebsocket
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