Jonas Gebhardt
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Consulting
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonas Gebhardt is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 14+ years of experience building products across consumer social, marketplaces, fintech, dev infra, and creative tools. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership—having led Nuclide at Facebook and driven platform migrations and GTM engineering at Brex for large orgs—while also founding and scaling early-stage startups like Vori and Swrm. Jonas excels at wearing many hats (product, design, data, infra), shipping delightful UIs and developer experiences, and contributing to notable open-source projects such as Atom/Nuclide where he improved core IDE UX. Passionate about learning and driving measurable value, he blends a Human-Computer Interaction background from Carnegie Mellon with pragmatic startup/operator instincts. An interesting detail: his open-source contributions emphasize making developer tools more usable—improving docs, snippets, and debugger UIs to reduce friction for other engineers.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science IT Systems Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction, Bachelor of Science IT Systems Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction at Hasso Plattner InstituteMaster Human-Computer Interaction, Master Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
English, German
Github Skills (16)
atom-editor10
snips10
uid10
snippet10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
sni10
react10
documentation10
jsx10
sublime-text10
graphical-user-interface9
lessc9
css9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/sublime-react
Feb 2014 - May 2015
Sublime Text helpers for React. Syntax highlighting DEPRECATED in favor of babel/babel-sublime
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily focused on improving the documentation and snippets within the `sublime-react` repository. Their contributions included generating and updating the README file, adding installation and usage instructions, and incorporating screenshots to enhance clarity. They also updated JSX syntax highlighting and adjusted snippet paths, contributing to the overall usability and developer experience of the package. The user's commits show a focus on creating a user-friendly package.
reactbabelsublimehelpershighlighting
facebookarchive/nuclide
Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
An open IDE for web and native mobile development, built on top of Atom
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 634 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonas contributed significantly to the user interface of a development environment built on Atom. Their work involved creating and modifying core UI components with React for managing file trees, watch expressions, and handling stepping controls in the debugger. The user was also involved in the development of a new debugger UI and improving the user experience by addressing scrolling and applying theme-consistent styling.
mobile-developmentatomideon-top
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