Jordan Overbye
Senior Frontend Engineer at Atlassian
Australia
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Top SchoolJordan Overbye is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Australia with a decade of experience building polished, user-focused web interfaces across startups and enterprise teams. Currently at Atlassian after five years leading frontend efforts at Thinkmill, he brings strong design sensibilities from a Visual Communication background to complex React and CMS-driven projects. Jordan is an active open-source contributor, improving UX and docs for well-known projects like KeystoneJS and Theme UI and adding practical features such as mobile fixes, theming, and copy-to-clipboard utilities. He excels at bridging design and engineering—shipping accessible, themeable UI components and documentation that help teams move faster—while quietly specializing in front-end build quality and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Iona CollegeDiploma of Visual Communication Design and Visual Communications General, Diploma of Visual Communication Design and Visual Communications General at Design College Australia
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
website-development10
wordpress-themes10
css10
theme-ui10
ui-design10
ui-theme10
react10
jsx10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
mdx9
pretier9
graphql9
prettify9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
blocks/blocks
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
A JSX-based page builder for creating beautiful websites without writing code
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 49 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed primarily to the front-end development of the project, which is a JSX-based page builder. They implemented the manifest configuration, updated documentation, and added and styled code-related elements. The user also made several UI-related updates including styling the sidebar and header, as well as integrating new features like copy-to-clipboard functionality and theme customization.
reactlowcodevisual-editorwysiwygjavascript
keystonejs/keystone
May 2019 - Jun 2021
The superpowered headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 106 commits, 70 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed primarily to the website component of the KeystoneJS project, working on both front-end and back-end code. The commits include implementing new features, such as adding a 404 page and fixing mobile menu issues, and making CSS improvements. The user also updated the packages link in the header and addressed a bug with the tooltips for the arch-ui project.
cmscms-frameworkreactnode-jsnodejs
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