Jayden Seric
Founder at Spry
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJayden Seric is a founder and full-stack JavaScript engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience building GraphQL APIs and server-rendered React/Next.js apps that have reached millions. He designs elegant, high-performance systems and developer tooling—authoring the GraphQL multipart request spec and maintaining 43+ GitHub projects and 32+ npm packages that drive over 110 million installs per year. His work spans startups and agencies to enterprise, from shrinking client bundles and CI pipelines to architecting GraphQL schemas and reducing runtime dependencies. Notable open-source contributions include enhancements to Next.js examples and the widely used apollo-upload-client with React Native and batching support. He combines product-minded engineering (multiple live consumer apps and fintech/marketplace projects) with hands-on hardware and fabrication at Spry, coding parametric 3D models and running a custom online store. Pragmatic, standards-driven, and unusually cross-disciplinary, he establishes best practices rather than just following them.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
npm10
react-native10
nextjs10
wpgraphql10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
apollo10
react10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
nodes8
nodejs8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jaydenseric/apollo-upload-client
Feb 2017 - Jul 2022
A terminating Apollo Link for Apollo Client that fetches a GraphQL multipart request if the GraphQL variables contain files (by default FileList, File, or Blob instances), or else fetches a regular GraphQL POST or GET request (depending on the config and GraphQL operation).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 releases, 11 reviews, 410 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jayden primarily focused on enhancing the `apollo-upload-client` library. Their contributions include simplifying imports, fixing request issues, refactoring internal code for cleaner class extension and method overrides, and enabling query batching to improve performance. Furthermore, they added crucial support for React Native and addressed several bugs related to network interface options and the extraction of files.
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vercel/next.js
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
The React Framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 131 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jayden primarily focused on enhancing the examples within the Next.js framework related to Apollo, specifically addressing errors, component display names, and data fetching. They contributed to several example projects, including those using Apollo, Apollo with Redux, and graphql-react. Further contributions included updating dependencies, migrating to new APIs, and adapting to the evolving ecosystem of Next.js and related GraphQL libraries like graphql-react.
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