Nick Gerleman is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and hardening runtime, build, and test infrastructure for large-scale native and cross-platform projects. Based in Seattle, he has driven release and automation efforts at Microsoft and now works on React Native runtime capabilities at Meta, blending C++ systems work with TypeScript/JS tooling. His open-source contributions include improving React Native documentation and example typechecking on the official React Native website, enhancing build/test tooling for Facebook’s Yoga layout engine, and modernizing build and integration tests for react-native-windows. Nick excels at bridging native and JS ecosystems—automating linting, typechecks, and build reproducibility—and has a track record of shipping reliability improvements that smooth cross-platform developer workflows.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering at Iowa State University
A framework for building native Windows apps with React.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (focus on React Native Windows and associated native build infrastructure)
Contributions:44 releases, 1774 reviews, 600 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick was primarily focused on updating and maintaining the build infrastructure, and integrating a set of changes into the React Native Windows (RNW) project, specifically the core React Native framework. They contributed to changes related to the generation of code, updating the project to new versions and build targets, and improving code quality with automated checks. The user also focused on fixing the build of test applications in the repository, including integration tests.
Contributions:120 reviews, 21 commits, 94 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the documentation and example code within the React Native website repository. They implemented linting and typechecking for the example code snippets, integrating ESLint and TypeScript to enforce code quality. The user also worked on refactoring existing examples to be compatible with TypeScript and updated the website to work with newer React Native versions. Furthermore, they implemented automation and tooling around linting and typechecking.
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