J Hartzog is a software engineer with 10 years of experience who pivots effortlessly between consumer mobile apps and immersive VR, currently building panel experiences at Meta. He previously led React Native initiatives as a tech lead, architected multi-platform coaching and LMS products, and shipped CI/CD, notification, and reusable component systems that scaled to tens of thousands of users. Earlier in his career he created the top-selling iOS game StickWars (10M+ users) and served as a nuclear submarine officer, bringing disciplined, safety-first engineering and leadership to product development. A front-end-focused contributor to projects like a minimalist Jekyll template, he combines pragmatic UI polish with systems thinking from high-stakes operations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Duke University
Contributions:16 PRs, 29 comments, 7 issues in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:J primarily contributed to the user interface and visual presentation of the Jekyll template. They added and modified CSS to implement a title image for posts and centered the title image. They also updated the layout and styling of the blog post, including navigation links. In addition, they ensured the visual design was responsive.
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