Ned Schwartz
Senior Software Engineer, React Platform
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNed Schwartz is a Senior Software Engineer with roughly two decades of experience specializing in modern JavaScript, React platforms, and scalable design systems. Currently shaping GitHub’s React platform, he builds developer-facing frameworks and paved paths that make consistent, performant UIs easier to ship across large organizations. A longtime DesignOps and Lean UX advocate, Ned pioneered Storybook Driven Development to tie UI authoring to documentation-first, test-driven workflows and has contributed to the Storybook ecosystem. He combines front-end craftsmanship—Styled Components, CSS at scale—and pragmatic backend API experience (GraphQL, Rails, Django) to deliver maintainable, user-focused products. Beyond day-to-day platform work, he mentors teams, refactors for long-term maintainability (evident in contributions to GitHub’s hotkey tooling), and freelances under The Interned, maintaining a creative practice grounded in a Fine Arts degree.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Fine and Studio Arts, 3.71, Bachelor’s Degree, Fine and Studio Arts, 3.71 at Concordia University
English, French
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Github Skills (4)
html10
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css8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
github/hotkey
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Trigger an action on an element with a keyboard shortcut.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 44 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ned primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the "hotkey" tool. They added functionality for a hotkey mapper, including a tool to display hotkey strings and a copy-to-clipboard button. Further improvements involved refining the layout and positioning of UI elements. The user also addressed layout issues and refactored the code for improved maintainability.
reactshortcuttriggerdecoratorhotkey
theinterned/dotfiles
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:182 pushes, 3 comments, 9 issues in 3 years 5 months
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