Jakub Beneš
Product Engineer at CalendarPipe
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJakub Beneš is a Product Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building frontend-first platforms and developer tooling from Prague. He has repeatedly scaled teams and technical roadmaps at Productboard—founding the Frontend Platform and Design System efforts—and later drove senior engineering work at Outreach before returning to product-focused roles. A long-time JavaScript and React/React Native specialist, Jakub has contributed to notable open-source projects like Haul (a Webpack-powered React Native CLI) and has fixed tricky debugging and HMR issues that improved developer workflows. He combines IC depth with leadership experience, having managed multi-team engineering hires, onboarding, and ladder recalibrations to professionalize growing orgs. Currently applying his product-engineering skills to AI-driven commercial insurance insights at Advocate Technologies, he pairs pragmatic shipping with a knack for turning complex data into usable features. Colleagues know him for blending technical rigor with mentorship and for making developer experience a first-class product concern.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout, Information technology, Dropout, Information technology at Brno University of Technology
Czech, English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
react-native10
webpack10
webpacker10
build-automation9
cli9
configuration-management8
testing8
html6
react6
transparency6
css6
ramdajs6
background-image6
redux6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
callstack/haul
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Haul is a command line tool for developing React Native apps, powered by Webpack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 18 commits, 21 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributes to the `haul` project, a CLI tool for React Native app development. Their work includes implementing features related to build processes, such as improved error reporting and warning display, and enhancements to the build configurations. They also focused on addressing debugging issues related to remote debugging and made improvements to the hot module replacement functionality. Furthermore, the user made changes to configuration management.
command-line-toolreact-native-appwebpackreact-nativecli
jukben/platform-select
Apr 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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