Jon Newmuis
Portugal
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Top SchoolJon Newmuis is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nearly a decade of experience driving frontend-first web publishing initiatives at Google, where he helped found and scale the Web Stories format and led teams contributing to the high-profile AMP Project. He has repeatedly combined hands-on UI engineering with product and ecosystem leadership—growing teams from small founding groups to 20+ engineers and enabling partnerships that delivered millions of story views per day. His work spans architecture, prototyping experimental web publishing formats, and maintaining open-source story frameworks, including concrete contributions to amphtml components and story layout fixes. Based in Portugal, Jon pairs deep frontend craftsmanship with a knack for coordinating cross-functional efforts across publishers, advertisers, and platform partners. He’s comfortable moving between rapid prototyping and production-grade systems, and quietly excels at turning complex content formats into reliable, widely adopted web experiences.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Feb 2017 - Sep 2022
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 119 reviews, 201 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on front-end development, with commits focused on the implementation and modification of user interface elements within the AMP story framework. These included ensuring local storage usage, fixing whitespace issues, and implementing components for the amp-story extension, particularly those involving the amp-story-grid-layer tag and auto-ads functionality. The user's work involved refactoring and enhancing the user interface, as well as fixing bugs to improve the component's functionality and appearance.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
ampproject/wg-stories
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
Responsible for implementing and improving AMP's story format (amp-story). Facilitator: @newmuis
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 7 months
ampstory-formatimproving
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