Joel Tadmor
Head Of Engineering at Eraser
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Tadmor is a Head of Engineering with 11 years of experience building collaborative, flat teams and the technical foundations for creative products, currently leading engineering at Eraser after progressing from founding engineer. He blends hands-on full-stack development and leadership with deep interests in data visualization, no-code flow builders, customizable data models, and applied NLP. Joel is an active front-end contributor to the Slate rich text editor—improving serializers, rendering benchmarks, and node movement—which reflects a penchant for complex UI/UX and performant editor tooling. His background is unusual for an engineering leader: a prior legal career and a J.D. that sharpened his skills in structured argumentation, policy thinking, and business advising. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings product-focused engineering rigor and a maker’s curiosity to early-stage product challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor (J.D.) Impact litigation community economic development environmental justice, Juris Doctor (J.D.) Impact litigation community economic development environmental justice at Northeastern University School of LawBachelor's Degree Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Applied Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (15)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javascript10
browser10
text-editor10
slate10
rich-text10
react10
testing9
callback6
meteor6
rfc6
animation6
angularjs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ianstormtaylor/slate
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 55 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on improving the Slate rich text editor framework. Their contributions include fixing issues within the HTML serializer, ensuring consistent element value lookups, and refactoring code related to node movement. The user also addressed and fixed benchmarks related to rendering, including large documents with selections, and added new benchmarks for testing specific functionalities like fragment insertion and normalization.
rich-textrichtextbrowserjavascriptrte
jtadmor/slate
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors.
Contributions:12 PRs, 66 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 11 months
contenteditabletext-editorswysiwygrich-text-editorrich-text
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