Jonah Snider
Software Engineer II at Sanity
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonah Snider is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently expanding Sanity’s platform with AI-driven features and agents. Deeply versed in Node.js and TypeScript, he has made notable open-source contributions to high-profile projects like type-fest and NestJS, improving type utilities and core server behavior. Jonah has driven backend modernization initiatives at Voiceflow—leading a migration from a legacy Express stack to NestJS—and built internal tooling for migrations, ETL, and observability. Based in San Jose, he balances product-focused engineering with developer experience work, shipping libraries and SDKs as well as frontend features. Outside work he coaches FRC Team 581 and maintains a steady string of OSS contributions, signaling a practical blend of mentorship and community-first engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
utilities10
app-framework10
npm-package10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
nestjs10
type-system10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
web-framework10
nodejs10
typescripts10
nextjs9
css9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
zws-im/zws
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Shorten URLs using invisible spaces
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:522 commits, 320 PRs, 899 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonah contributed to the development of the URL shortener application. Their work included merging code from another repository, adding features such as logging the local URL, and refactoring to set up a Firebase project. They also redesigned the front-end, implemented a request validation system, and incorporated Google Analytics and PWA functionality, improving both the application's functionality and user experience.
urlsprismashorten-urlsfastifyspaces
sindresorhus/type-fest
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
A collection of essential TypeScript types
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jonah significantly contributed to the `type-fest` repository, a collection of TypeScript types, by adding new type definitions for numeric ranges, floats and a `LiteralToPrimitive` type. They improved the documentation by enhancing the `@category` descriptions and corrected formatting issues in the README. These contributions suggest a strong understanding of TypeScript and the project's core purpose of providing utility types.
typescript-definitionsnpm-packageessentialtypescript-typesutilities
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