Jason Weill
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Weill is a front-end and full-stack software engineer with over 20 years of experience building customer-facing products at scale, most recently as a Senior Front End Engineer on Project Jupyter at AWS. He blends practical product sensibilities with open-source stewardship—contributing notable UX and functionality improvements to widely used projects like Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab, including a cell toolbar, scheduler, and TOC enhancements. His background spans browser clients, server components, and production services from Kindle storefronts to Tableau’s Workbook Formatting and Catalog, demonstrating strong cross-team coordination and operational rigor. Known for favoring clarity about product purpose over investor stories, he balances business needs with community-driven development and governance experience in the Jupyter community. Currently on a career break and based in Seattle, he’s open to returning when the right, mission-focused opportunity arises.
4 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Japanese, Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (16)
css10
uid10
typescript10
jupyter-notebook10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
jupyterlab10
jupyter10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components9
testing9
notebook9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:142 reviews, 41 commits, 168 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the JupyterLab project by enhancing the table of contents (TOC) extension. They made the ILabShell and restorer parameters optional, improving flexibility. Additionally, the user fixed issues with styling in the UI components and document search functionality. Further contributions involved adding new command features and improving the cell toolbar functionality.
jupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyter-widgetjupytercomputational
jupyter/notebook
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
Jupyter Interactive Notebook
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the user interface of the Jupyter Notebook application. Their work involved modifying the display of file names in the UI, specifically removing the `.ipynb` extension from various titles and tab labels. They also updated UI tests to reflect the changes, ensuring the new file name display functionality worked correctly. Additionally, the user contributed to hiding toolbars in the application and implemented a feature to duplicate notebook files.
jupyter-notebooknotebookjupyterlabnotebooksjupyter
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