~/jbouder
$ whoami --verbose

johnny bouder

Engineer, leader, advocate…on a relentless quest for knowledge. I build AI-enabled experiences, open-source tools, and the developer experience around them — lately that means AI agents, lots of experimentation, and design systems that people actually enjoy using.

UPTIME
18 yrs
STACK
React / TS / Python
FOCUS
UI / UX / DX
LOCATION
Remote / US

$ ls -la ./selected-work

4 entries

$ cat about.md

I have spent my career one refresh away from the user — building frontends, component libraries, and the tooling that makes shipping them less painful. The bio says "relentless quest for knowledge" and it is not a bit: if there is a new web API, runtime, or agent framework, I have probably already broken something with it.

Most of my work lives where developer experience meets open source: design systems teams actually adopt, starter kits that skip the boilerplate arguments, and lately, coding agents — figuring out what software development looks like when the IDE talks back.

Off the clock: side projects that occasionally escape into production, and an ever-growing list of experiments in the lab.

CURRENTLY
buildingagent-quest
exploringAI coding agents
stackReact, TS, TanStack
statusopen to interesting problems

$ history | head -20

2026 — now
Director of Engineering — AI Experience · OpenTeams
Leading engineering for AI experience — open-source platforms, agentic workflows, and the frontends that make them usable.
2008 — 2026
Principal Software Engineer · MetroStar
Led frontend engineering across government digital services. Created Comet, the open-source React component library and starter kit.
2003 — 2007
Sergeant — Combat Engineer · United States Marine Corps
Served as a combat engineer, reaching the rank of Sergeant before moving into software.

$ mail -s "hello"