Jacob Thornton has been doing software development in the bay area for over a decade, working on early startups like Threadsy and Medium as well as larger organizations like Coinbase and Twitter.During this time he's also worn a number of hats; designer, software engineer, tech lead, group lead, manager, co-founder - and been a part of a number of major technical initiatives and rewrites: #newTwitter, #newNewTwitter, rewrite of profiles, lists, and articles 2.0 at Medium, and most recently React Native at Coinbase.Alongside his day-to-day work, he's also been an active member of the front-end software community. He has contributed several large open source projects (most notably as the co-creator of Twitter Bootstrap), given talks around the world (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os), and written several chapters in books (https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-JavaScript-Leading-Programmers-Explain/dp/1449370756).