Jon Roach
Principal Engineer at Fanatics
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJon Roach is a Principal Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade-plus of hands-on experience building scalable web applications using modern JavaScript (React, Node) and legacy stacks like PHP and ASP.NET. He progressed through technical and managerial roles at Fanatics, moving from senior engineer to principal while continuing to lead engineering teams and deliver performant front-end architectures. Jon is the lead developer of the popular open-source Webpack Monitor (80k+ npm downloads, 2.1k+ stars), demonstrating deep expertise in Webpack’s build lifecycle and build-time performance optimization. He combines pragmatic engineering with product-minded tooling—shipping visualization and monitoring features that turn build metrics into actionable improvements. Before software, he ran operations and finance for a wine business, a background that surfaces in his data-driven, ROI-focused approach to engineering decisions.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geography, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geography at University of Liverpool
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Github Skills (7)
plugin-development10
javascript10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
react10
webpack10
css7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
webpackmonitor/webpackmonitor
Sep 2017 - May 2018
A tool for monitoring webpack optimization metrics through the development process
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 61 PRs, 34 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jon implemented and refactored core features of the webpack monitor tool. They focused on developing a monitor-stats plugin and related configuration files. The user also set up the template and routes for the frontend, including recommendations and build data visualizations. They demonstrate experience in using JavaScript, React, and Webpack to build the monitoring and visualization tools.
webpack-pluginmonitoroptimizationcode-splittingtreeshaking
roachjc/webpackmonitor
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
webpackmetricsmonitoringoptimization
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