Jon Schlinkert
Student at brandscale
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarJon Schlinkert is an experienced open-source software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of hands-on experience building and polishing developer tools and libraries. Based in Cincinnati, he is the creator and maintainer behind widely used projects like gray-matter and remarkable and a key contributor to foundational repos such as less.js and Enquirer, impacting tools used by Facebook, Gatsby, ESLint, and many others. His work spans full-stack development, documentation, and tooling—often focused on performance, refactoring, and developer experience—plus creating helpers and parsers that power static site and build ecosystems. A seasoned public speaker and executive coach, Jon has advised CEOs and delivered talks for Fortune 500 sales teams, and his entrepreneurial chops earned SBA/SCORE small business awards and a top Odesk ranking in business plans. Not obvious from his student title: he’s a prolific OSS maintainer whose libraries are embedded across major platforms and developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
10,979reputation
4.2mreached
97answers
14questions
extend
top-1%
semantics
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sass
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twitter-bootstrap
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gruntjs
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glob
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Github Skills (45)
markdown10
extend10
javascript10
twitter-bootstrap10
coffeescript10
handlebars10
css10
sass10
responsive-design10
prompt10
gruntjs10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
parse10
prompter10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jonschlinkert/gray-matter
Jan 2014 - Apr 2018
Smarter YAML front matter parser, used by metalsmith, Gatsby, Netlify, Assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, vuejs vitepress, TinaCMS, Shopify Polaris, Ant Design, Astro, hashicorp, garden, slidev, saber, sourcegraph, and many others. Simple to use, and battle tested. Parses YAML by default but can also parse JSON Front Matter, Coffee Front Matter, TOML Front Matter, and has support for custom parsers. Please follow gray-matter's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 181 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the functionality of the `gray-matter` library, focusing on its front-matter parsing capabilities. They implemented an "autodetect" feature to automatically register a language based on the code delimiters, increasing the library's flexibility. Furthermore, they added support for parsing Javascript, CoffeeScript, TOML, and CSON front matter. Their work also included adding tests for language detection and stringification methods.
gatsbyjshashicorpmapbox-glmetalsmithnetlify
enquirer/enquirer
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and more! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 299 commits, 58 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jon's commits primarily focus on code cleanup, linting, and typo fixes, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. They made changes to multiple files, including core functionality, examples, and test files, suggesting work across different areas of the project. Their contributions encompass code structure and error resolution.
aws-amplifycypresseslinthardhatlighthouse
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