Jonathan Boiser
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonathan Boiser is a Staff Software Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building ergonomic, accessible user interfaces and full-stack features for products ranging from robotics UIs to global educational platforms. He has led major front-end rewrites and accessibility improvements at Learning Equality (notably contributing to the Kolibri LMS) and built touch-screen React/TypeScript/Electron interfaces for Vicarious that integrated with REST and gRPC robotics services. At Instrumental he progressed from Senior to Staff Engineer, continuing to shape engineering practices, testing, and delivery. Comfortable across stacks, he has modernized backends (Django→GraphQL), refactored complex reactive code to more functional patterns, and introduced architectural patterns that decouple data and presentation. Jonathan combines academic training in applied mathematics with a human-centered design ethos, and has hands-on experience traveling to study real-world users in both urban and rural contexts. He’s known for raising code quality through tooling, documentation, and mentoring while keeping a relentless focus on real usability and accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
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javascript10
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django10
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api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
css9
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
learningequality/kolibri
Mar 2017 - Jun 2021
Kolibri Learning Platform: the offline app for universal education
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:95 releases, 198 reviews, 3256 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan's contributions focused on implementing new UI elements, such as a “select all” checkbox, and modifying existing components within the Kolibri learning platform, learningequality/kolibri. These changes involved modifications to the device plugin, particularly within the "Manage Content" section, suggesting a focus on improving user interfaces. The user's commits demonstrate proficiency in building and modifying components for the Kolibri framework, indicating experience in front-end web development for an educational platform.
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learningequality/studio
Jun 2017 - Mar 2021
Content curation tools for Kolibri
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 187 commits, 58 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing F401 errors across various files including Python scripts and JavaScript files. They addressed import issues in contentcuration/contentcuration/management/commands and contentcuration/contentcuration/view files, as well as within the project's URL, router, and form files. Additionally, the user refactored and added search API endpoints, and also implemented Vue components for the ImportFromChannels features.
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