Courtney Rogers

• Migrated CoffeeScript React components to TypeScript and added full test coverage.
• Improved web file preview load times by 15% by removing third-party libraries.
• Contributed to the React server rendering project to improve initial page loads for users on high latency internet connections.
• Developed and maintained the promise based open source Dropbox JavaScript SDK.

• Part of the React core team responsible for maintenance of the open source project.
• Designed and implemented the reconciliation algorithm that improved the developer experience while also offering performant rendering.
• Added support for CSS in JS, allowing components to be styled without CSS files.
• Core contributor to the release of React hooks, which aided the transition to functional components.

• Parse was acquired by Facebook in 2013.
• First engineering hire. Responsible for setting up bundling, testing, asset management, UI components, and much more.
• Worked closely with early users to iterate on and improve dashboard UI.

Research assistant at the MIT Media Lab.