Joon Park
Software Engineering Manager at Figma
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoon Park is a software engineering manager with a decade of experience building front-end driven products and developer tooling, currently leading teams at Figma after engineering leadership roles at Spotify and senior engineering at Google. He combines hands-on full-stack work—contributing features and permissioning improvements to the widely used open-source Backstage developer portal—with product-minded leadership shipping at scale for platforms serving hundreds of thousands of users. His background includes critical front-end ownership at Grubhub and a history of building campus-scale web apps, evidencing a knack for pragmatic design and fast iteration. Trained as both a physicist and music composer, Joon brings a creative, analytical approach to engineering and also composes for community ensembles—a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that informs his collaborative leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Ithaca High SchoolBA in Physics & BM in Music Composition (Dual Degree), Physics and Music Composition, BA in Physics & BM in Music Composition (Dual Degree), Physics and Music Composition at Northwestern University
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
plugin-development10
backstage10
web-developer10
portal10
react10
typescript9
microservices-application9
typescript-types9
nodejs9
typescripts9
microservices9
html6
flux6
jquery6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:195 reviews, 104 commits, 63 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Joon contributed to the Backstage developer portal by adding new features and components. Their work includes implementing a new "todo-list-common" plugin and integrating a Typeform survey banner into the microsite. They also made updates to the permissioning system, including creating and aggregating permissions endpoints, as well as addressing catalog permission integration. Further work involved refactoring code, simplifying prop types, and improving overall functionality and documentation.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
Joonpark13/portfolio
Aug 2017 - Jun 2021
Joon's Portfolio Site
Contributions:3 PRs, 44 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 11 months
javascript
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