Jason Antwi-appah
Student
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Antwi-appah is a computer science student and software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and performant front-end UIs. He has delivered production features at startups and enterprise internships—reducing page loads 5x with Redis caching, migrating frontends to Vue/TypeScript to speed delivery, and prototyping Agile tooling with Spring Boot and React at JPMorgan Chase. Jason contributes to notable open-source work evaluating JavaScript framework performance (implementing Million.js benchmarks in the popular js-framework-benchmark repo), reflecting a focus on measurable front-end efficiency. He blends user research and engineering to produce clear specs and tooling that improve team workflows and LLM-driven requirements understanding. Based in Austin and active in the Hack Club community, he pairs practical product instincts with a curiosity for performance optimization and developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tom Glenn High School
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
benchmarking10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
uid9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
krausest/js-framework-benchmark
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
A comparison of the performance of a few popular javascript frameworks
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of Million.js benchmarks within the js-framework-benchmark repository. They implemented and refined benchmark tests using Million.js, adding new benchmarks, updating existing components, and integrating them into the testing framework. Their work involved creating UI elements, managing event handling, and ensuring the benchmarks function correctly, demonstrating a focus on front-end performance evaluation. These changes also involved code refactoring to use correct classNames instead of classes.
benchmarkingv8-javascript-enginejavascriptcomparisonframework
jasonappah/wordcounter
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Next.js app to display the word count of given text.
Contributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 9 months
next-jsreactnextjsword-count
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