Jim Nielsen
President COO at Sprouts Farmers Market
Park City, Utah, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarJim Nielsen is a seasoned executive and operator with 13 years of experience who currently serves as President & COO at Sprouts Farmers Market and advises small businesses through JLN Ventures. He combines C-suite leadership with hands-on product and UI sensibilities—evidenced by front-end contributions to the Quadratic open-source spreadsheet project where he improved UX details like zoom shortcuts, tooltips, and a fuzzy-search command palette. Based in Park City, Utah, Jim blends retail operations and strategic growth expertise with practical web design/development instincts, making him equally comfortable in boardrooms and code reviews. Known for focusing on pragmatic improvements that enhance customer and team workflows, he brings a detail-oriented, UX-first approach to scaling businesses.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
233reputation
181kreached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (15)
uid10
typescript10
menu10
javascript10
command-palette10
user-interface10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
menu-item10
menubar10
react10
typescript-types10
fuzzy-search9
jquery6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
quadratichq/quadratic
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Spreadsheet with AI, Code, Connections
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:461 reviews, 60 commits, 370 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on UI improvements and menu enhancements within the Quadratic spreadsheet application. Their contributions included fixing text casing, updating icons, and refining the layout of menu dividers. Further work involved tweaking zoom functionality, adding zoom shortcuts, and implementing tooltips for border application. Additionally, they updated the command palette, including support for fuzzy search and the implementation of file actions and edit commands.
data-analysispythondatasciencedata-science
jimniels/gimmiedaticon
Jun 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.