Jacob Fletcher
Open Source Developer at Figma
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Fletcher is an open source developer and product-minded engineer with 10 years building custom web applications, design-driven UX, and full-stack frameworks. He has led design and technical teams for clients ranging from small businesses to multinationals and helped re-platform and ship major versions of Payload CMS—contributing core features like infinitely nested UI, Live Preview, and cloud subscriptions. Now building Payload at Figma, he combines TypeScript/Next.js backend expertise with hands-on front-end work (notably improving Payload’s admin UI and preview workflows) and writes documentation and roadmap-driving product work. A magna cum laude graphic design graduate, he brings a designer’s eye to developer tooling and is equally comfortable sketching UX flows as shipping API-first features.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design, 3.85 Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design, 3.85 Magna Cum Laude at Spring Arbor UniversityHigh School Diploma, General Studies, 3.99 Summa Cum Laude, High School Diploma, General Studies, 3.99 Summa Cum Laude at Belding High School
Github Skills (17)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
typescript10
nextjs10
sc10
scs10
front-end-development10
content-management10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
ui-components9
graphql8
wordpress-graphql8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
payloadcms/website
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
The official Next.js website for payloadcms.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 237 commits, 131 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the front-end of the Payload CMS website by implementing and integrating new features. They installed and integrated the payload-admin-bar, opened a preview API route to allow for draft content preview, and implemented handling for preview exit functionality. They also bumped the payload-admin-bar to v1.0.5, installed and configured components for image support with the next/future/image functionality, and scaffolded the required styleguide pages for typography and buttons.
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payloadcms/payload
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:485 reviews, 141 commits, 1440 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacob made a series of changes focused on updating and maintaining the Payload CMS Next.js framework. Their contributions included fixing field validation arguments, addressing metadata base URL issues, and refactoring and adding features to UI components. They also worked on various elements and components, including adding new features.
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