Hayden Bleasel is an Australian product designer and software engineer with 11 years of experience who now leads teams building developer-focused products from San Francisco. He blends design sensibility with front-end engineering, shipping production-grade Next.js templates and contributing UI improvements to projects like a Notion-style WYSIWYG editor. As a former CPO at Corellium he scaled revenue and renewals while aligning product, design and engineering; prior roles include DX work at Vercel and founding an agency acquired in 2023. Hayden prioritizes simplicity, accessibility and a learning-driven approach, and is equally comfortable sketching user journeys or scaffolding TypeScript codebases. An owner-level thinker, he often moves between strategy and hands-on implementation to turn complex problems into elegant, usable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business, Management, Bachelor of Business, Management at University of Technology Sydney
Production-grade Turborepo template for Next.js apps.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 12 reviews, 30 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hayden's commits primarily focus on the initial setup and configuration of a Next.js application using TypeScript. Their contributions include scaffolding the base application structure, setting up CSS styling, creating the main application page, and integrating Tailwind CSS for styling. Furthermore, the user implemented the Next.js SEO functionalities and began to add the @vercel/og, indicating a focus on frontend development and initial project setup.
Notion-style WYSIWYG editor with AI-powered autocompletion.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hayden primarily focused on enhancing the UI components of the Notion-style WYSIWYG editor. They implemented various features and refactored the existing code base. The contributions included code modifications involving React components, managing editor behavior, and incorporating drag and drop functionality. The user made improvements to the visual presentation, ensuring consistency and fixing layout issues within the editor.
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