Jake Clements is a Melbourne-based senior engineering manager with 11 years of web development experience, currently leading teams at OpenTable after progressing from senior engineer to management. He blends front-end expertise in React, Angular, Redux and D3 with full-stack sensibilities (Express) to close gaps between UI and backend, and focuses on performance, accessibility and data visualisation. Jake has a proven track record refactoring build and deployment workflows—evident in contributions to the OpenComponents project where he replaced Grunt with streamlined npm-run-scripts to improve maintainability and testing. Comfortable delivering under pressure, he champions modern ES6 tooling, consistent linting/testing practices and stakeholder collaboration to move projects from prototype to production. Colleagues describe him as self-motivated and pragmatic, with an atypical background in video production and client-facing roles that sharpens his product empathy and communication.
OpenComponents, serverless in the front-end world for painless micro-frontends delivery
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Jake's primary focus was on refactoring and improving the build and deployment processes of the OpenComponents project. They removed Grunt, replacing it with npm-run-script tasks, and modified the build process for the client-side components. The user also made modifications to several files including git related tasks, and also included changes to testing frameworks, suggesting a focus on overall project maintainability and improvement. This included updates to the changelog generation and unit tests within the project.
An easily internationalizable, mobile-friendly datepicker library for the web
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
reactdatepickercalendarjavascriptmobile-friendly
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Jake Clements - Senior Engineering Manager at OpenTable