Chiedo John
Staff Product Manager, Product-led Growth at Rocktown Angel Club
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolChiedo John is a product-led growth leader and former founder with 11 years of experience building developer-focused products and scaling teams at GitHub, where he now serves as Staff Product Manager after roles spanning engineering leadership, interim product management, and director-level growth. He blends hands-on engineering chops—contributing front-end improvements to the high-profile Gatsby framework around image handling—with strategic product work that drives acquisition and activation for developer audiences. Comfortable switching between code and strategy, he has led docs and marketing engineering teams and repeatedly stepped into cross-functional roles to unblock product delivery. As founder of Chiedo Labs and an angel club organizer in Harrisonburg, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with an investor’s network-minded approach to startups. He’s also invested in formal growth training through Reforge, signaling a data-informed, experiment-driven playbook. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic builder who prefers shipping practical solutions over theoretical perfection.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
12 Courses, 12 Courses at ReforgeB.S Degree Computer Science, B.S Degree Computer Science at James Madison University
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
html10
react10
gatsby10
ip-address9
wpgraphql9
python9
wordpress-graphql9
flask9
jestjs9
mongodb9
graphql9
webapp8
static-site-generator8
web-application8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 24 PRs, 137 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chiedo primarily focused on enhancing the image handling capabilities within the Gatsby framework. They added support for HTML `img` tags, enabling richer integration of images, including those nested within HTML nodes. The user also addressed image-related issues by adding features like default alt tags, optional linking to the original images, and the ability to ignore specific file extensions, which streamlined image processing and customization.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
chiedo/dotfiles
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:25 commits, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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