Jae Hanley
Principal Software Engineer at Care.com
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJae Hanley is a Principal Software Engineer based in Jersey City with 13 years of experience blending product design sensibility and full-stack engineering to build robust front-end platforms. Currently leading frontend and Node development at Care.com, he focuses on platform reliability and cross-team support while evolving developer experience. His background at Postlight spans product design to JAMstack and enterprise client work (Vice, PBS, Obama Foundation, Goldman Sachs), reflecting a rare combination of design-first thinking and pragmatic engineering. Comfortable shipping across React, Vue, Express and static-first architectures, he brings a designer’s eye to UX tradeoffs in large-scale codebases. Notably, his career progression from visual and product design into principal-level platform ownership shows a consistent talent for translating user-centered concepts into maintainable, production systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Fine Arts Graphic Design, Bachelors of Fine Arts Graphic Design at SUNY New Paltz
English
Github Skills (18)
nyc10
contrast10
mercury9
parser8
react8
accessibility8
css7
html7
chaos6
desktop6
calc5
zone5
javascript4
hotkeys4
mousetrap4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jaehanley/Colorific
Jan 2018 - Sep 2021
A color contrast tool for desktop & web
Contributions:2 releases, 41 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 9 months
reactweb-desktopcsscolor-contrastdesktop
jaehanley/Flood-Zone-NYC
Jan 2013 - Oct 2022
Source Files for Flood Zone NYC
Contributions:68 commits, 46 PRs, 54 pushes in 9 years 10 months
floodzoneevacuationmapevacuation-planning
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