Jason Gaare
Staff Software Engineer at CompanyCam
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolJason Gaare is a Staff Software Engineer in Lincoln, Nebraska with a decade of experience building mobile-first products and developer-facing tools. He has grown through hands-on mobile development into engineering management and now staff-level technical leadership at CompanyCam, where he focuses on shipping practical tooling that helps teams thrive. Jason’s open-source work—like crafting geometry-aware React Native tooltip components—reflects a detail-oriented approach to UX and cross-platform rendering challenges. His background in youth development and mentoring surfaces in a collaborative leadership style that prioritizes coaching and sustainable team practices. Known for cleaning up tricky UI geometry and alignment logic, he brings both product empathy and frontline engineering discipline to complex mobile codebases.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
react-native10
tooltips10
react10
tooltip10
highlighting8
react-native-ios6
react-native-router-flux6
ios6
uiscrollview6
android6
animation6
image6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jasongaare/react-native-walkthrough-tooltip
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
An inline wrapper for calling out React Native components via tooltip
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 7 reviews, 146 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions focused on developing React Native components for a walkthrough tooltip. They created and modified code related to tooltip positioning, styling, and geometry calculations. The changes included implementing arrow positioning, adding display insets, and adjusting calculations to ensure proper rendering and alignment of the tooltip elements. The user also performed code cleanup and refactoring, improving overall code quality.
reactcallingreact-nativeinlinetooltip
CompanyCam/react-native-calendar-datepicker
Jan 2017 - Oct 2020
React-Native cross-platform, calendar component.
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 9 months
reactcalendar-componentcalendarreact-nativeandroid
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