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 (158)
parser10
json-data10
excel10
stylelint10
javascript10
laravel10
json-api10
bootstrap10
redux-actions10
bootstrap-components10
redux10
php10
react-components9
browser9
cli9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
redux-json-api/react-redux-json-api
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
egeriis/laravel-jsonapi
Jul 2014 - Aug 2016
Make it a breeze to create a jsonapi.org compliant APIs with Laravel 5.
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 1 month
laravel
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