Jaime Wheeler
Engineering Manager at Dropbox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJaime Wheeler is an Engineering Manager at Dropbox in San Francisco with 14 years of software experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, performant web products. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source work like refactoring Dropbox’s widely used zxcvbn password-strength library—with product-facing leadership that drove a 40% year-over-year lift in search referrals and sub-2s page loads at BabyCenter. Jaime has led technical migrations and international launches, managed outsourced teams, and scaled small engineering organizations from hiring through continuous releases. Trained as a civil and environmental engineer, he applies a systems-minded approach to building testable, SEO-optimized user experiences that balance business KPIs and technical health.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleWinterboro High School
English, Sign languages
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
code-library10
refactoring10
javascripts10
lib10
refactorings10
refactor10
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/zxcvbn
Apr 2012 - Oct 2017
Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 228 commits, 49 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jaime's commits primarily focused on improving and refactoring the core codebase of a password strength estimation library. Their work included fixing a bug related to exporting a JavaScript function, updating the build process, switching to node style module exports for better compatibility, and refactoring various parts of the library's matching, scoring, and init modules. These changes suggest a strong understanding of JavaScript and its module systems.
securitylow-budgetstrengthestimationpassword
lowe/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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