Erik Jönsson
Engineering Manager, NYT Cooking at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Jönsson is an engineering manager at NYT Cooking with a decade of experience building product-focused web applications and leading cross-functional teams at The New York Times. He blends full‑stack technical chops—React, Node, Rails, PostgreSQL—with a product and marketing background that helps prioritize user experience and business impact. At NYT he progressed from front‑end developer to senior engineer and manager, driving replatforming efforts and productized native advertising while co‑leading data and topic‑modeling re‑architectures. A former music performance major who taught himself multiple languages and instruments, he brings curiosity and creative problem solving to engineering culture and mentoring. He values fast iteration, resourcefulness, and a lighthearted team environment, and pairs hands‑on coding with people leadership to deliver polished, responsive experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBM Music Performance, BM Music Performance at Ithaca College
Github Skills (11)
fact10
web-development8
javascript8
css8
movie6
react5
nodejs5
commerce2
json1
ecommerce1
converter1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SyrianMusic/syrian-music-www
Sep 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:62 PRs, 86 pushes, 58 branches in 7 months
erikwithuhk/trailer-park
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 273 commits, 76 PRs in 11 months
social-networkreactmovietv-shownodejs
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