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Jonathan Preston Senior Front-End Engineer at Ontraport

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Comment · 1 day ago

Location: Santa Barbara, CA Remote: Yes — US remote preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, Web Components, WebSockets, REST APIs, Playwright, Jest, Webpack, NodeJS, Docker, GraphQL, PHP, Go, SQL/PostgreSQL, Compound Engineering, Open Spec, Codex, Claude Code / AI-assisted development

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: redshoeweb <at> gmail dot com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-preston-redshoeweb/

Senior/Staff-level frontend engineer with 13 years at Ontraport, where I progressed from Junior Engineer to Senior Frontend Engineer and technical lead. I’m looking for a Senior or Staff Engineer role where I can stay close to the code while owning architecture, complex product work, and technical direction.

I’ve led products from early prototypes through production, including a graph-based visual automation builder, website/email builders, real-time multi-channel messaging, and data-heavy CRM interfaces. My work has included frontend architecture, complex state management, WebSockets and event-driven systems, performance optimization, reusable component systems, application security, TypeScript modernization, and occasional backend work in Go/PHP/Postgres.

I also spend a significant part of my time making engineering teams more effective: technical design and planning, mentoring, code/architecture reviews, debugging difficult production issues, and improving tooling and testing. I introduced Playwright and reusable mocked APIs for E2E testing, and more recently have incorporated Claude Code and other AI-assisted workflows into debugging, implementation, testing, legacy-code exploration, and review.

Best fit: a collaborative, product-focused team building complex web software where strong frontend architecture, UX, and engineering judgment matter. Especially interested in Senior/Staff IC roles at growing, mission-driven companies.

Comment · 1 month ago

Location: Santa Barbara, CA

Remote: Yes — US remote preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS, WebSockets, REST APIs, Playwright, Jest, Webpack, Docker, PHP, Go, SQL/PostgreSQL, Claude Code / AI-assisted development

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: redshoeweb <at> gmail dot com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-preston-redshoeweb/

Comment · 4 months ago

This is interesting and cool for entertainment, but it's extremely hard to picture using this as a replacement for an architect.

We're building an ADU right now and the floorplan design was a very small part of what our architect did. So much more of the value came from the relationships he has with the structural and geotechnical engineers we used as well as the relationship with our city building department.

This really strikes me as a product in search of a problem.

Maybe a homeowner could use this for initial planning before finding an architect to use, but at that point you're competing with pencil and paper.

Comment · 1 year ago

Do you ensure you have enough personas in the desired target area to get enough survey responses? Are there demographics you are not able to simulate at this time?

Comment · 1 year ago

I'm a little surprised by this comment because both dev mode and variables are the main ways I use Figma. Our design team creates the design and then the Devs use dev mode to implement what they designed. Dev mode has been great for our team!

Is this an uncommon use case?

Comment · 3 years ago

It's stack ranking for neighborhoods!

Comment · 4 years ago

You're right that there are definitely some bad actors for cancelling subscriptions, it's really crappy you've had to deal with that! I once had a recurring charge from rackspace that neither myself nor rackspace's support could tell me which account the charges were associated with! Luckily my credit card company was able to put a block on any charges coming from rackspace rather than have to cancel the entire card.

I still think there are way more good companies than bad ones when it comes to cancelling and I do value building a relationship with the companies I patronize.

It is worrying to give so much power to a 3rd party, in this case google, who is notoriously difficult to deal with when an issue arises.

Comment · 4 years ago

When given the choice, I will always subscribe/pay/book directly with the company rather than use a 3rd party. If something goes wrong it's always easier to only need to deal with one company rather than two. Plus I'm choosing to start a relationship with a company that I give money to and thus want them to be able to use all of that money towards making the service and experience the best possible, rather than have them be handicapped by fees coming right off the top.

Comment · 5 years ago

Do you have any tips on good screeners or places to find these SPACs? I've never invested in them yet and don't know too much about them. Are they traded just like regular stocks?

Comment · 6 years ago

UC Irvine has one underneath the chemistry building https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/trigareactor/

Comment · 6 years ago

That's interesting. UC employees aren't classified as state employees, they are employed by the regents. CSU employees are state employees.

Comment · 6 years ago

100% this. I made a pretty large costco order with instacart yesterday and expected to pay 15% in fees and tip, but when the order came I saw the store receipt and they overcharged me on almost every single item. The instacart order total was 35% more than what was spent at the store. The total lack of transparency is infuriating and I very much feel cheated.

Comment · 6 years ago

Personally I really appreciate the photography and visual details of films and find that I feel I have to choose between reading the subtitles and noticing those intricate details in a film.

Comment · 6 years ago

Unless you happen to have a magic crystal ball, it's a purely speculative gamble. Nothing about tsla's price is rational right now. The people who shorted yesterday probably thought the same thing...

Comment · 7 years ago

All of the University of California schools (except for Berkeley and Merced) are on the quarter system. I really liked the quarter system. It really felt like professors couldn't waste your time with busy work activities. Everything was very focused.