Jack Howard
Senior Software Engineer at Expel
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolJack Howard is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building themeable web and mobile applications across startups and large media organizations. He currently architects a TypeScript/React design system at Expel and previously delivered production React frontends and scalable AWS-backed services for The Washington Post. His background spans real-time mapping and tracking, accessibility improvements in React Native, and data-driven journalism tools, reflecting a blend of user-focused UI work and backend reliability. Comfortable across the stack—React, Redux, Node.js, Docker, AWS—he favors design systems, CI/CD, and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he pairs a journalism degree with deep technical chops, which helps him translate complex data and product needs into clear, maintainable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Spanish
Stackoverflow
449reputation
113kreached
6answers
2questions
safari
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
low-level10
isolation10
web-development10
browser10
api10
html10
storybook-addon10
figma10
static-site-generator10
ssg10
doubleclick10
nodejs10
svelte10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JackHowa/marathon-run-log
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Tracking Chicago Marathon 2020 as it's gone virtual, with Gatsby
Contributions:3 reviews, 65 PRs, 110 pushes in 1 year 7 months
gatsbyreactchicagotrackinggatsbyjs
JackHowa/meta-store-frontend
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Shop for shops online
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 35 pushes in 11 months
javascriptreactshopshops
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