Omri Ackley
Software Engineer at Recurse Center
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmri Ackley is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building and stewarding web platforms, currently working at Propel and engaged with the Recurse Center. He has led front-end platform efforts at Newsela—guiding migrations to Next.js/Preact, improving accessibility and mobile usability, and shaping practices used by 50+ developers across 10+ teams. A thoughtful mentor and educator, Omri previously taught hundreds of full-stack students, reviewed thousands of pull requests, and authored extensive internal documentation and training. He combines hands-on delivery (React, Django, Node.js) with program-level work—shipping mobile-native wrappers for a PWA, orchestrating performance monitoring, and instituting cross-team conventions. Omri seeks candid, caring teams and brings a consistent focus on inclusion, developer experience, and practical accessibility improvements that benefit millions of K–12 users.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Biology and Technology, Bachelor of Arts, Biology and Technology at Hampshire CollegeSwampscott High School
Github Skills (84)
react9
router9
nodejs9
sql8
javascript8
effector8
postgresql8
boilerplate8
orm8
mssql8
sqlite8
microsoft-sql-server8
json8
scaffold8
mysql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
omriBernstein/isopod
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:134 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
isomorphic-javascriptdeserializationjavascriptserializationisomorphic
omriAckley/qgame
Nov 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:85 commits in 9 months
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