Jonathan Soeder is a Head of Product with 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling full-stack software products, currently leading product at Legalist. He combines deep expertise in JavaScript, Node.js, React (including React Native), Ruby on Rails, AWS and Docker with a practical architect’s mindset—designing systems, automating testing and deployments, and shipping production-ready platforms. His background spans startups and enterprise engagements, from founding CTO responsibilities to leading solutions architecture for large e-commerce and data-driven finance teams. An active contributor to popular open-source projects like react-boilerplate, he focuses on optimizing build processes and bridging frontend and backend concerns. Based in Barrington, IL, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams as he is rolling up his sleeves to fix build or server issues late in the cycle.
🔥 A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 PRs, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the configuration and development of the React boilerplate. They made changes to the build process, adding a DLL generation step and modifying dependency optimization plugins. Additionally, the user updated the express server to correctly handle the DLL and fixed bugs related to argument parsing and linting errors within the project. These contributions indicate a focus on both frontend and backend aspects of the application.
Contributions:103 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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