Jonathan Clem
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Clem is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building developer-focused infrastructure and product features across startups and large platforms, including GitHub, Dropbox, Heroku, and Magic. He specializes in improving developer experience and solving cross-organizational challenges in observability, performance, security, and billing, and played a key role in launching GitHub’s reimagined Issues and advancing GitHub Actions tooling. Equally comfortable full-stack or backend, his open-source contributions include improving the popular actions/toolkit and actions/github-script projects to make Actions scripting more robust and configurable. A former CTO and co-founder, he blends product-minded engineering with pragmatic infra work, and brings an uncommon background in drama from NYU that informs his collaborative, user-centric approach to building developer tools.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Drama, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Drama at New York University
English
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Github Skills (31)
github-ci10
javascript10
typescript10
process-management10
eslint10
ruby10
pretier10
jestjs10
unicorn10
typescript-types10
prettify10
nodejs10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
testing9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
actions/github-script
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Write workflows scripting the GitHub API in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 3 reviews, 175 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the GitHub Actions script. They updated core dependencies like `@actions/core` and `@actions/github` and introduced new features related to result encoding. They also refactored the code to support different result encodings (JSON and string) and adjusted the context passed to the script execution. Further improvements were made to better handle and process inputs.
apiscriptingjavascriptworkflowsworkflow
actions/toolkit
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan significantly contributed to setting up the foundational structure and tooling for a new GitHub Actions toolkit. They initiated the project with placeholder packages and then integrated Jest and TypeScript configurations, including ts-jest for transformations. Furthermore, they incorporated ESLint and Prettier for code quality, and refactored the package structure, renaming and adding new classes to the project. Finally, they added key functionality to support GitHub Actions, including a token and required environment variable configuration.
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