Jack Hanford
Head Of Frontend Engineering, PLG at Owner.com
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJack Hanford is a Head of Frontend Engineering focused on product-led growth with 13 years of experience building high-impact web applications from MVPs to scale. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep frontend expertise in JavaScript and frameworks like Angular/Next.js with a marketer’s intuition for growth and user adoption. At Lattice and Owner.com he’s led engineering efforts that balance shipping delightful UIs with reliable offline and routing behaviors. An active open-source contributor, Jack has improved projects such as Next.js offline support using Workbox and enhanced Facebook’s Lexical editor, showing attention to performance, accessibility, and real-world paste/export edge cases. He’s equally comfortable refactoring complex codebases and shipping pragmatic features that move product metrics, and often brings unconventional, guerrilla-marketing ideas into engineering roadmaps.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
St. Mary Lake Leelanau
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Github Skills (29)
caching10
javascript10
text-editor10
typescript10
nextjs10
ui-design10
editor10
service-worker10
uid10
front-end-development10
pwapp10
workbox10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
disk-cache10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hanford/next-offline
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
make your Next.js application work offline using service workers via Google's workbox
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:197 commits, 79 PRs, 265 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily worked on enhancing the `next-offline` project, which focuses on enabling offline capabilities for Next.js applications using service workers and Workbox. Their contributions included refactoring code, adding new features like the `registerPath` option for service worker registration, and removing unused dependencies. The user also played a significant role in rewriting the project to utilize Workbox v3 and v4.
next-jsworkboxreactservice-workerrapidapi
oven-sh/bun
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jack contributed to the `bun-sh/bun` repository by implementing and modifying Next.js-related code. They added and updated components, implemented routing methods, and addressed typescript errors within the Next.js framework integration. Their work focused on functionality within the Next.js framework, including components and routing features, as well as polyfills and fixes. The user also performed general cleanup.
runtimeexecutablejavascriptpackage-manageresmodules
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