Seth Webster
Chief Developer Evangelist at The React Foundation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Webster is a human-centric engineering executive and developer advocate with over two decades of experience building products, platforms, and teams at global scale. As former Head of React at Meta he grew the org, launched the AOT React Compiler, accelerated React Native releases, and co-founded the React Foundation to steward the framework’s future. Now Chief Developer Evangelist at Expo and Executive Director of the React Foundation, he focuses on unifying frontend infrastructure, developer experience, and AI-driven product strategy to make advanced AI interfaces usable and responsible. He blends deep open-source leadership with hands-on engineering—his GitHub contributions include media integrations for collaborative apps—and a creative side as a professional photographer and creative director. Known for scaling high‑performance cross‑platform UI teams and building developer‑first cultures, he seeks Director/VP roles that align DevEx, frontend infra, and AI to serve billions.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaDiploma, General, Programming, Diploma, General, Programming at Amphitheater High School
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
data-provider10
csharp10
content-type10
dotnet-core10
web-development9
css9
api8
javascript8
dotnet8
apim8
net8
asp-net8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JabbR/JabbR
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Collaborative chat done right
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:141 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on implementing and enhancing content providers within the chat application. Their work involved developing a SlideShare content provider, enabling the embedding of SlideShare presentations. They also addressed a timestamp issue by updating CSS. Furthermore, they integrated a Vimeo content provider and made improvements to the Google Docs presentation provider, demonstrating a focus on expanding the application's media support capabilities and improving user experience.
reactsocket-iojavascriptchatcollaborative
sethwebster/TwitterBot
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:66 commits in 3 months
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