Jack Pope

Tech Lead Manager, React at Meta

New York, New York · github.com/jackpope

  • Software engineer and engineering manager with 10+ years of experience shipping interactive web products, infrastructure, and UI frameworks at scale
  • Currently leading the React core team at Meta, innovating on React capabilities and integrating them with web and native products across Meta

Experience

  • MetaFull-time · 6 yrs 2 mos
    Tech Lead Manager (React Programming Model)Aug 2025 - Present
    • Own the roadmap for React's core capabilities and tooling in order to provide new utility and performance improvements to framework, product, and infrastructure teams internally and community-wide.
    • Advanced 8 product-shaping React features in the past year, roughly 3× the team's historical cadence.
    • Presented on React's latest features with the React Conf keynote, sharing the team's vision and roadmap with the global React community.
    • Support a team of junior to staff engineers across highly complex UI infrastructure, including performance reviews, career growth, and mentorship.
    Staff Frontend Software Engineer (React Programming Model)Oct 2023 - Aug 2025
    • Built React's Fragment Refs feature: shipped at Meta, made generally available in Canary.
    • Migrated all Meta React applications to concurrent rendering (React 18). Personally fixed 6K+ test callsites, federated 3K+ more, drove 10K+ legacy unit tests to zero, removed Enzyme entirely, and migrated 800+ ReactDOM.render callsites.
    • Shipped React 19 stable after the release had been blocked.
    Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Instagram.com)Jul 2021 - Oct 2023
    • Led Instagram Web's multi-year REST to GraphQL migration from inception. Prototyped a GraphQL-REST bridge to serve existing API endpoints over the GraphQL protocol, then refactored the site from Redux to Relay with persisted queries, rebuilding core product surfaces and managing REST/GraphQL interop through incremental rollout. Architected Relay Environment Injection and Monoschema (mixing IG/WWW queries) across IG and Threads web apps, establishing GraphQL as the new standard. Migrated over 50% of IG Web traffic to GraphQL with Relay.
    • Tech-led the Web Product team at Instagram, setting technical direction and coordinating with PM and design to improve features across IG Web.
    • Built the Reels viewer on web, bringing Instagram's short-form video experience to the desktop product.
    Frontend Software Engineer (Instagram.com)Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
    • Redesigned and launched the new full-screen Stories viewer on desktop, bringing the mobile-first experience to web users.
    • Shipped Desktop Feed Creation. Built the end-to-end web flow for image/video upload, cropping, filters, and trimming: launching to (~+350K media/day).
    • Built the cookie banner and third-party consent flow for the EU ePrivacy directive across Instagram.com.
  • ContentlyFull-time · 3 yrs 7 mos · New York City
    Staff Software EngineerJan 2020 - Mar 2020
    • Architected a rich text editor with annotations, version control, and suggested edits that replaced the core content creation product.
    • Founded and led the Frontend Working Group, establishing technical direction and best practices for all client-side engineering.
    Senior Software EngineerAug 2018 - Dec 2019
    • Led the adoption of React across the engineering org, including building a system to iteratively migrate the frontend and facilitating hands-on workshops to teach the team.
    • Built a shared React design system library from scratch.
    • Tech lead for the company's first product-qualified lead effort, a public-facing SPA that drove new revenue through talent services.
    Software EngineerSep 2016 - Jul 2018
    • Developed complex frontend features including campaign Gantt charts, multimedia collaboration tools, and custom form builders.
    • Created videojs-annotation-comments, an open-source video.js plugin for in-player collaboration.
    • Migrated all JavaScript from Rails Sprockets to Webpack, modernizing the build pipeline to support ES6.
  • tsu.coFull-time · 9 mos · New York City
    Software DeveloperDec 2015 - Aug 2016
    • Orchestrated a complete visual redesign within two months of joining without any downtime, on a 5M+ user social network.
  • Self EmployedFreelance · 1 yr 4 mos · Connecticut
    Freelance Software DeveloperSep 2014 - Dec 2015
    • Provided full-stack web application services to small real estate and industrial clients, including ecommerce platforms and custom internal tools.