Jon Christensen is a Staff Front-End Engineer with over a decade of experience designing accessible, high-performance web interfaces for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500s. He specializes in React and TypeScript and has led front-end teams at agencies like 10up and Fueled, shipping projects for brands such as Microsoft, The New York Times, IKEA, and Harvard Business School. Jon blends a BFA in Graphic Design with deep engineering craft—comfortable moving between semantic markup, design systems in Figma, and complex headless CMS architectures like Sanity and Astro. He’s passionate about accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and developer workflows, and frequently mentors engineers while steering cross-functional initiatives under tight timelines. Notably, his background spans both bespoke front-end stacks and WordPress/headless CMS work, giving him a rare perspective that bridges design, content platforms, and modern front-end toolchains.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design at Iowa State University
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