Eli White
Software Engineer, React at Meta
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli White is a seasoned React-focused software engineer with 15 years of experience building and improving developer productivity, infrastructure, and front-end/mobile frameworks at scale, currently at Meta in Redwood City. He’s led cross-organizational initiatives for React Native and React—shaping architecture, reliability, and performance while mentoring teams and partnering with external platforms like Microsoft. A prolific open-source contributor, Eli has driven improvements across high-profile projects such as React, Relay, and ESLint, often focusing on codemods, linting, autofixes, and maintainability. He blends hands-on engineering (from native Android work to backend refactors) with managerial experience, having transitioned between individual contributor and engineering manager roles at Meta. Outside work he’s a circus enthusiast and dessert fanatic—small clues to a creative, detail-oriented mindset that shows up in both UI polish and tooling.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (72)
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python10
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automation10
jtest10
coding-style10
backend10
jsx10
range-picker10
relay10
javascript10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
PokemonGoF/PokemonGo-Bot
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
The Pokemon Go Bot, baking with community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:104 commits, 299 PRs, 218 pushes in 27 days
Contributions summary:Eli primarily focused on refactoring and implementing core backend logic for the Pokemon Go bot. Their contributions included refactoring move logic, adding new workers and features, and handling inventory and Pokemon data processing. The user also made improvements to the overall code structure by filtering Pokemon and handling various error conditions, indicating a focus on improving the bot's functionality and robustness.
pythonpokemongofdiscordbotdiscord-bot
react-native-community/cli
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
The React Native Community CLI - command line tools to help you build RN apps
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Eli primarily focused on maintaining and improving the React Native CLI. They contributed to code formatting using Prettier, fixed eslint warnings, and added functionality to reload connected devices and simulators. The user also made code changes related to Flow type checking and various project configurations.
reactyarnreact-nativejavascriptcommand-line-tools
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