JB Bakst
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJB Bakst is a founder and CEO with 11 years of software engineering and product experience, now leading Chief, a Los Angeles-based startup. He spent six years at Airtable as a product and software engineer, bringing deep experience building user-focused, scalable web products and tooling. A Stanford computer science graduate, he combines strong technical chops with product intuition and a founder’s appetite for shipping and iterating quickly. His background spans early-stage engineering at Chime Chat through to product-driven roles at Airtable, giving him a rare blend of hands-on development and strategic product leadership. Known for translating complex workflows into elegant user experiences, he brings both technical depth and a knack for turning customer insights into viable businesses.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Collegiate SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, German
Github Skills (42)
quill10
html-editor9
wysiwyg9
compatibility9
rich-text-editor9
text-editing9
rust8
stylelint8
python8
rte8
static-analysis8
contenteditable8
static-code-analysis8
linter8
extensibility7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Hyperbase/vis
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 pushes in 21 days
visualization-librarybrowserwebgljavascriptbrowser-based
Hyperbase/blocks-eslint
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 14 days
javascriptpatternspluggablereporting
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