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Jordan Walke is the founder of an independent, early-stage software startup based in Seattle, Washington, best known as the original creator of the React.js library and the ReasonML programming language. He spent over a decade working as a software engineer at Meta, where he also significantly influenced modern mobile app development by creating the React Native framework. Released as an open-source JavaScript framework, React.js has accumulated over 220,000 GitHub stars and serves as the foundational user interface architecture for major platforms like Instagram and Airbnb. Prior to his extensive tenure at Meta, Walke worked as a software development engineer at Amazon and studied computer science at the University of Washington. In January 2021, he officially departed Meta to pursue his own entrepreneurial ventures focused on advancing frontend web development, programming languages, and open-source software engineering.