Nick Gerleman
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick 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
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Github Skills (25)
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react-native10
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eslint10
ruby10
automation10
typescript-types10
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automations10
typescripts10
react10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/react-native-windows
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
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)
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.
reactwindowswindows-appuwpxbox
react/yoga
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:8 releases, 126 reviews, 45 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick's commits focus on improving the build and test infrastructure for the Yoga layout engine. Their contributions include adding a Gemfile and lock file to manage and lock the versions of dependencies used by the test generator, specifically to manage the chromedriver and other browser tools. Additionally, the user implemented a build script and addressed issues with a previous build setup on Windows environments.
layout-engine
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