Jesper Hodge
Senior UX Engineer at Unicon, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesper Hodge is a senior UX engineer and technical founder with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack products for startups and high-traffic platforms. He combines product-minded engineering with leadership—shipping revenue-driving integrations (SCORM Connect), authoring APIs for edx.org, and stepping into informal tech-lead roles while mentoring teams. Skilled in React, JavaScript, Python, Node, and cloud-native architectures, he has improved Core Web Vitals and caching layers for major news sites and contributed to the Open edX ecosystem. Equally at home bootstrapping MVPs as a CTO or optimizing performance at scale, Jesper brings a pragmatic blend of strategic ownership and execution. Based in Boston, he favors projects where product, engineering, and business impact meet, and has a track record of turning complex stakeholder requirements into measurable revenue and performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at Heidelberg University
English, German
Github Skills (37)
javascript10
openedx10
lms10
frontend10
react10
user-interface9
typescript9
declarative9
html8
django8
django-models8
world-of-warcraft7
pathofexile7
typewriter7
to-do7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jesperhodge/frontend-app-authoring
Jan 2023 - Jun 2026
The micro-frontend for course authoring in Open edX. Frontend interfaces that currently live in Studio/CMS should eventually live here.
Contributions:79 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 6 months
cmsreactedxauthoringmicro-frontend
jesperhodge/frontend-lib-content-components
Jan 2023 - Jul 2023
A library of high-level components for content handling (viewing, editing, etc. of HTML, video, problems, etc.), to be shared by multiple MFEs.
Contributions:192 pushes, 18 branches in 6 months
html-videomfesproblemshigh-levelhandling
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