Eric Rozell
Software Engineer at Meta
Albany, New York Metropolitan Area United States
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Eric Rozell is a software engineer and seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building cross-platform developer experiences and cloud solutions, currently working on React Native desktop platforms at Meta. He previously led remote engineering teams at Microsoft Commercial Software Engineering, focusing on Conversational AI, DevOps, and customer-facing cloud integrations, and was the creator and maintainer who grew react-native-windows into a top Microsoft open-source project. Eric combines deep systems and C# expertise with front-end mobile/desktop work — from adding Windows support to react-native-video and CodePush to fixing low-level layout issues in Yoga — enabling real-world cross-platform parity. He holds BS and MS degrees from Rensselaer with perfect GPAs and brings a track record of shipping production-ready features, performance fixes, and tooling improvements across large ecosystems. Not obvious at first glance: he’s contributed practical ARM/UWP marshaling workarounds and LINQ serialization innovations that improved reliability for large-scale stream processing and platform ports.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, 4.0, B.S., Computer Science, 4.0 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (47)
asynchronous10
debug10
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
interoperability10
react-native10
async10
ui-components10
windows10
uwp10
net10
dotnet10
os-development10
cross-platform10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/react-native-windows
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 351 reviews, 1589 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the development and maintenance of the React Native Windows framework, focusing on UI and component implementation and bug fixes. They implemented features, such as `postMessage` and `injectJavaScript` callbacks for the WebView, added support for the `autoFocus` and `clearTextOnSubmit` properties for TextInputs, and improved the handling of `onLayout` and text formatting. Additionally, they addressed race conditions and bugs, and performed code cleanup and refactoring to improve the framework.
dotnetreactuwpxboxwindows
facebook/yoga
Jan 2016 - Mar 2021
Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the C# implementation of the Yoga layout engine, addressing issues related to UWP builds and P/Invoke calls on ARM architectures. They added a UWP build target, resolving compatibility problems with mobile and Xbox deployments. The user also addressed a critical issue causing AccessViolationExceptions in the C# wrapper by implementing a workaround for struct marshaling on UWP/ARM. Furthermore, the user fixed layout issues related to nodes with YGDisplayNone and YGPositionTypeAbsolute in the JavaScript and Java tests.
followlayoutandroidupdatescross-platform
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