Jesse Jorgenson
Senior Software Engineer at Base Power Company
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Jorgenson is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and editor-focused systems from startups to Fortune-scale products. A mathematician by training, he specializes in front-end engineering and rich text editing—leading Evernote’s Note Editor/Viewer efforts including collaborative editing and deep browser-level integrations. He’s co-founded and technically led product and privacy-first initiatives at Axil and BuyerNeeds, designing local-first sync, encryption, and scalable serverless architectures. Jesse contributes to prominent open-source projects like ProseMirror, fixing subtle editor bugs and improving platform compatibility, reflecting his attention to low-level UX and cross-platform correctness. Based in Austin, he combines hands-on coding across TypeScript/React/Node with devops and cloud experience, and enjoys tackling hard edge cases that sit between browser quirks and user-visible behavior.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics at James Madison University
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Github Skills (8)
prosemirror10
javascript10
front-end-development10
dom-manipulation9
testing8
npm6
nodejs6
bower6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ProseMirror/prosemirror-view
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
ProseMirror's view component
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the ProseMirror view component. They addressed issues related to node selection synchronization, click handling, and composition events, ensuring correct behavior in the editor. The contributions involved modifying core JavaScript files and updating test cases to improve the stability and functionality of the view component. Further improvements involved platform detection for iPadOS, restoring workarounds for bugs.
prosemirrorviewcomponent
jljorgenson18/simplesmoothscroll
Apr 2016 - Mar 2020
A module to simply scroll to an element on the page in a butter smooth fashion
Contributions:80 commits, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years
scrolltobutteryscrollingscrollssmooth-scrolling
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