Jack Angers
VP Of Engineering at OpenSpace
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Angers is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building backend and platform systems for venture-backed startups in San Francisco, now serving as VP of Engineering at OpenSpace. He combines hands-on engineering chops from early-stage founding and senior IC roles with a proven track record of scaling teams and platforms through successive leadership roles at the same company. A pragmatic problem-solver, Jack is also an active open-source maintainer — creator of the popular Emacs "dumb-jump" plugin (1000+ stars and top-100 MELPA downloads) — and holds a top 2% Stack Overflow reputation, signaling deep cross-language expertise. He brings entrepreneurial curiosity and systems-level thinking, routinely translating ambiguous product needs into reliable, developer-friendly tooling and infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Stackoverflow
20,963reputation
3.5mreached
244answers
9questions
cors
top-5%
go
top-5%
java
top-5%
javascript
top-1%
python
top-5%
css
top-1%
Github Skills (27)
editors10
javascript10
text-editor10
grepl10
css10
editor10
grep10
emacs-lisp10
regular-expression10
ecmascript10
react10
cors9
java9
python9
go9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jacktasia/dumb-jump
Nov 2015 - Jul 2022
an Emacs "jump to definition" package for 50+ languages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 26 reviews, 440 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the development of the Emacs "jump to definition" package. Their work involved implementing core functionalities such as generating and running grep commands for various programming languages, including JavaScript and Clojure, as well as defining regular expressions for different code constructs. They also implemented features related to context awareness, like parsing responses from grep and providing multiple choices for the user. Furthermore, the user worked on testing and improving the overall functionality of the tool by adding a system to test the rules.
jumpelispripgrepspacemacsdeveloper-tools
jacktasia/dotemacs
Jun 2012 - Jan 2021
Contributions:339 commits, 3 PRs, 242 pushes in 8 years 8 months
emacsconfigemacs-config
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