Eric Simons
CEO & Founder at bolt.new
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Simons is a founder and software leader with 11 years of experience building developer-facing products and consumer web apps from San Francisco. As CEO of bolt.new he leads a company focused on generating apps and websites via prompting, and previously co-founded Thinkster, which was acquired in 2018. He combines full‑stack engineering chops—contributions to projects like StackBlitz’s core online IDE and the popular gothinkster realworld Angular example—with product instincts for developer UX and deployment workflows. Comfortable moving features into core platforms, he has hands‑on experience with deployment tooling, SDK enhancements, and front‑end component work including authentication and markdown editing. Known for turning open‑source experimentation into commercial products, he blends technical depth with founder-level product and go‑to‑market execution.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
angularjs10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
firebase10
css9
sdk9
markdown-it8
polymer8
markdown8
restful-api7
api-design7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
gothinkster/angularjs-realworld-example-app
Apr 2016 - May 2017
Exemplary real world application built with Angular 1.5 + ES6
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, evidenced by changes to HTML templates, JavaScript controllers, and component creation. Their work involved implementing authentication features, including login and registration forms, and the display of user profile information. They also added components for displaying errors, follow buttons, and article previews, along with integrating a markdown editor, showcasing a focus on UI/UX enhancements and component-driven development.
angular-1es6angular
stackblitz/core
Jul 2017 - May 2021
Online IDE powered by Visual Studio Code ⚡️
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric made several contributions to the `stackblitz/core` repository, primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the `hyperdeploy` feature, which appears to be related to Firebase deployment. They moved the `hyperdeploy` functionality into the core codebase and modified the API. The user also updated the SDK to include Polymer template support and enable custom origins.
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