Jason Crawford
Founder & President at Roots of Progress Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJason Crawford is a founder, writer, and technologist with 13 years of software leadership and startup experience who now leads the nonprofit Roots of Progress to shape a modern philosophy of technological progress. He built and led teams at startups and big tech—co-founding Fieldbook (a Product Hunt #1 spreadsheet-database), managing engineering at Flexport, Amazon, and Groupon, and early work on a biotech supercomputer at D. E. Shaw Research—combining deep systems engineering with product and people leadership. As a part-time technical consultant to Our World in Data and contributor to the owid-grapher repo, he continues to ship front-end features and testing infrastructure for data visualization platforms. He writes and speaks about the history of technology and is authoring The Story of Industrial Civilization, blending technical know-how with historical synthesis. Based in Boston, he pairs hands-on full-stack development chops with public-facing scholarship and nonprofit leadership.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (23)
data-visualizations10
testing10
typescript10
data-visualisation10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
data-visualization10
typescripts10
enzyme10
react10
npm9
objective-c9
front-end-development9
nodejs9
cocoa-touch9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
owid/owid-grapher
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
A platform for creating interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 28 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of a new "Explore" page within the data visualization platform. They implemented the front-end components using React and TypeScript, integrated a chart display, and added basic data table functionality. They also set up testing frameworks, including Enzyme, and wrote basic unit tests for the new features. Additionally, they integrated the new page within the site's build and routing configurations.
data-visualizationdata-visualizationsreacttypescript
jasoncrawford/brunel
Mar 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:120 reviews, 200 PRs, 692 pushes in 2 months
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