Ronni Persson
Engineering Manager, Frontend Developer Experience at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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SeniorRonni Persson is an engineering manager and frontend developer-experience leader with 13+ years of hands-on software and leadership experience and a 16-year engineering background overall. Currently leading Frontend DevX at Datadog, he previously founded and scaled web platform teams at SeatGeek where he drove migrations to TypeScript and Next.js and introduced performance SLOs tied to proprietary tracking. He brings founder-level product and technical ownership from CTO roles and startups (Dixie, Echo.it, eBinder), plus practical ops experience building secure, compliant document platforms. Known for combining data-driven decisions with pragmatic roadmaps, he mentors teams to adopt modern frontend architecture and observability practices. An active open-source contributor, he created redux-json-api and often surfaces CDN and performance expertise as a force-multiplier for organizations. Based in New York, he blends product intuition, engineering depth, and a history of turning legacy stacks into maintainable, high-performance platforms.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Danish, English
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Github Skills (200)
parser10
json-data10
npm-package10
excel10
launcher10
javascript10
tint10
reducers10
browser10
laravel10
dates10
json10
dataflow-programming10
json-api10
breeze10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
redux-json-api/redux-json-api
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Redux actions, action creators and reducers to make life with JSON APIs a breeze.
Contributions:7 releases, 208 commits, 74 PRs in 3 years 2 months
jsonapireactjson-apisreducersredux
redux-json-api/react-redux-json-api
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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