Jordan Walke
Software Generator
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJordan Walke is a software engineer with 14 years of experience based in Palo Alto, currently building developer-facing tooling at Replit as a Software Generator. He spent a decade at Facebook contributing to and refactoring the React codebase — improving UI components and core child-management logic for greater reusability — and remains an active contributor to one of the most widely used UI libraries. Jordan pairs deep front-end framework expertise with hands-on build and release engineering, having improved esy’s native build workflows and added IDE integration utilities. He’s known for simplifying developer experiences, from shortening example apps to adding clearer browser-based instructions, and for bridging UX-focused front-end work with robust build automation.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
javascript10
ui-d10
scripting10
configuration-management10
ui-design10
script10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
frontend10
frontend-development10
react10
standard-library9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
esy/esy
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
package.json workflow for native development with Reason/OCaml
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily focused on improving the build process and related tooling within the `esy/esy` repository. Their contributions involved configuring build platforms, which affected path separators, and fixing build failures. They also generated a `command-exec` utility for IDE integration. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the build scripts and configuration files, demonstrating an understanding of the project's build workflow.
native-developmentpackage-jsonocamljsonworkflow
facebook/react
Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
The library for web and native user interfaces.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 11 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the React codebase, implementing and refactoring UI components. Their work included adding instructions for browser-based examples and making improvements to existing examples, such as shortening a to-do example. They also worked on refactoring core React functionalities, specifically related to React's child management, improving its reusability.
user-interfacereactjavascript-libraryjavascriptdeclarative
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