John Bacon
VP Of Product at GigSalad
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Bacon is a product leader with 15 years of experience who now serves as VP of Product at GigSalad, where he shapes roadmaps, prioritizes features, and keeps user research central to decisions. He began as a full‑stack and front‑end engineer—leading major redesigns and performance optimizations at GigSalad and building web properties for Ubisoft’s Red Storm—so he blends hands‑on technical depth with strategic product judgment. A pragmatic communicator and recruiter, he’s hired and scaled product teams while teaching product fundamentals at Stanford Continuing Studies. He also contributes to open‑source front‑end projects, including performance and compatibility fixes to the widely used Sentry JavaScript SDK, reflecting a focus on robust, cross‑browser user experiences.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
CORe Credential of Readiness, CORe Credential of Readiness at Harvard Business School OnlineFundamentals of Product Management, Fundamentals of Product Management at Stanford Continuing Studies
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
regular-expression10
compatible9
browser-support9
error-handling9
performance-optimization8
html6
typescripts6
backgrounds6
cross-browser6
typescript-types6
css6
browser6
typescript6
github6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-javascript
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Official Sentry SDKs for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:John focused on improving the `joinRegExp` function within the JavaScript codebase. Their work involved fixing browser compatibility issues, particularly for Internet Explorer 8, and optimizing the function's performance. They also refactored the code for better efficiency by using a for loop with push and caching patterns' length, contributing to a more robust and performant solution for processing regular expressions.
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johnbacon/backtrack5-bootstrap
Mar 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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