Jesse Beach
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Town of Manlius, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Beach is a Software Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience crafting accessible, designer-friendly front-end tooling and internal developer platforms at Meta. He blends hands-on front-end expertise—illustrated by accessibility rule work in the widely used eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y and UI improvements to Backdrop CMS—with team leadership that accelerates modern JS/Node/React, Android and iOS UI development. Jesse’s background in HCI and linguistics gives him a rare mix of user-centered design sensibility and precise technical communication. He’s led migrations from legacy Rails to single-page apps, founded a UX studio, and taught web development, demonstrating both entrepreneurial initiative and mentorship. Colleagues rely on him to translate design craft into robust, extensible components that balance beauty, usability and engineering constraints. Based in upstate New York, he quietly champions accessibility as a first-class engineering concern across codebases and tooling.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS Human-Computer Interaction Design, MS Human-Computer Interaction Design at Indiana University BloomingtonBA Linguistics, BA Linguistics at Dartmouth CollegeGerman language, German language at Dietrich Bonhoeffer Schule (Gymnasium)
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
accessibility10
backdrop10
cms10
javascript10
accessibilityservice10
css10
acessibility10
react10
jsx10
test-automation10
user-interface9
ux-design9
eslint9
ui-design9
interface-design9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
Static AST checker for a11y rules on JSX elements.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
Front-end Developer & Accessibility SpecialistContributions:44 reviews, 444 commits, 254 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on improving the accessibility of JSX elements by adding and modifying rules related to proper usage of ARIA attributes and keyboard events. This included the creation of new rules and extensive updates to existing ones, with an emphasis on thorough testing. The work involved significant changes to the codebase, as evidenced by modifications to the core rules and utility functions.
reacteslintcheckerelementsjavascript
backdrop/backdrop
Dec 2010 - Mar 2011
Backdrop core code repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:146 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily worked on improving the user interface and user experience of the Backdrop CMS project. They styled tabs, and transformed add display input buttons into a dropdown list by modifying CSS and JavaScript files related to view administration. They also refactored and styled several UI elements in the editing pane, including the bucket elements. Further adjustments were made to contextual link display.
cmsbackdropphpcode-repository
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