Jared Hirsch
the internet <3, United States
Summary
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RockstarJared Hirsch is a front-end engineer with 14 years of experience focused on Firefox Desktop UI and user-facing features, based in the Los Angeles area. He has shipped improvements across core Firefox projects—helping shape profile management, Accounts (FxA), and the Firefox Screenshots extension—while also contributing back-end work on authentication and subscriptions. Jared blends a physics-trained analytical approach with practical front-end craftsmanship, often tackling both UI polish and underlying logic (including telemetry and i18n). He’s comfortable across the stack, from JavaScript UX details to server-side auth flows, and tends to surface subtle usability and accessibility fixes like high-contrast rendering and clearer onboarding. An active open-source contributor, he continues to maintain Mozilla work on GitHub while migrating personal projects to Codeberg.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (33)
javascript10
subscribe10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
css10
user-authentication10
authentication10
user-interface10
ui-design10
user-management10
uid10
user-profile10
manage10
firefox10
api10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/fxa
Jul 2012 - Apr 2021
Monorepo for Mozilla Accounts (formerly Firefox Accounts)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:146 reviews, 325 commits, 311 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the Mozilla Accounts (fxa) repository by implementing features related to subscription management and two-factor authentication. Their work included adding a new display name field to the subhub create subscription API, integrating TOTP setup into the login flow and modifying the display of user name. They also modified configurations in the payments and content server. These changes demonstrate a focus on features crucial to the user authentication and payment processes.
firefoxmonorepo
mozilla-services/screenshots
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Firefox Screenshots: the best way to take screenshots on the web.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:275 commits, 526 PRs, 520 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the Firefox Screenshots web extension, enhancing the user interface and functionality. They worked on extracting strings using the WebExtension i18n library and implemented changes to the onboarding flow, updating the legal notices and creating different tours based on the Firefox version. The user also addressed various UI and usability issues, like correcting error messages, improving the download button, and improving high contrast mode rendering, demonstrating a focus on improving the overall user experience.
firefoxjavascriptfirefox-screenshots
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