Seth Thompson
Product Manager at Notion
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Thompson is a product manager and creative technologist with 13 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, design, and product strategy across startups and academia. Currently at Notion and teaching at Columbia GSAPP, he also leads A Lot of Moving Parts as Principal & Creative Director, focusing on practical, user-centered digital products. His engineering roots show in open-source contributions to projects like the WebAssembly website and the Bankai web compiler, where he shipped front-end styling, cross-platform support, and server improvements. A Yale-trained architect turned builder, Seth brings a spatial, systems-oriented perspective to product problems and a knack for translating complex technical constraints into elegant user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Yale University
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
modular10
css10
modularity10
html10
browserify10
asset-catalog9
server9
asset-management9
webassembly8
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
nodejs8
testing8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
WebAssembly/website
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
WebAssembly website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 44 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the development and styling of the WebAssembly website, making it a minimal project landing page. They implemented changes to the CSS, incorporating and modifying styles from the Primer library, and added visual elements like a screenshot to the demo page. Furthermore, they updated the navigation and layout, including the introduction of a compatibility check and related messaging, enhancing the user experience.
rustwasmwebassembly
choojs/bankai
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
:station: - friendly web compiler
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Seth made multiple contributions to the `bankai` project, a web compiler, by addressing both front-end and back-end aspects. They implemented Windows support by using absolute paths, added logging for server-side rendering (SSR) errors, and updated test cases to align with changes in an external library. Furthermore, the user added support for files without extensions in assets and improved the HTTP server functionality by supporting content and public directories.
cssjavascriptcss-in-jscompilewebassembly
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