Jesse Sharp
Front End Engineer at Amazon
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Sharp is a Front End Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance JavaScript UIs and browser integrations, currently shaping scalable front-end features at Amazon from Austin. He specializes in modern React/TypeScript stacks, micro-frontend architectures, and testing frameworks like Cypress and Jest, with a proven record of improving runtime performance (e.g., 64% scrolling stress-test gains) and replacing legacy automation. Jesse’s background includes driving web platform work at Microsoft—contributing to WinJS used by hundreds of millions of users and implementing the W3C PaymentRequest API in Edge—plus open-source contributions on the winjs project. He’s skilled at bridging legacy and modern stacks, having interlaced React/Redux layers atop Backbone/JQuery/Kendo systems while managing complex async DOM interactions. Known for a customer-first mindset and eye for missing design requirements, he values software that’s easy to change and documents work while it’s fresh. Beyond code, he mentors peers and has international experience from distributed development programs, reflecting strong cross-team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kent Meridean High SchoolAssociate of Arts, Computer Science & Engineering, Entrepaneurship, Associate of Arts, Computer Science & Engineering, Entrepaneurship at Seattle Central CollegeBachelor of Science, Computer Science & Softare Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Softare Engineering at Seattle UniversityPacific Rim - Global Distributed Software Development, Pacific Rim - Global Distributed Software Development at Peking University
Github Skills (6)
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
user-interface9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
winjs/winjs
Mar 2014 - Feb 2017
A UI toolkit for modern browsers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 427 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse's commits primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the UI toolkit. They implemented and refined UI components, addressing issues related to user interface and visual presentation. Their contributions involved changes to both component styling through CSS and functionality in JavaScript files. The commits demonstrate a good understanding of UI development principles.
ui-toolkit
arcadiogarcia/winjs
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:168 commits in 2 months
microsoft-open-technologiestechnologiesmicrosoft
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