Jace Whitten

Now boarding

Principal frontend engineer. Fifteen years of taking things from a rough idea to a thing people actually use — e-commerce, IoT, SaaS, and a desktop audio app I ship on my own. Currently setting frontend direction and growing the team at Back At You.

Departures

6 records
2021–now5 yr 6 mo

Principal Frontend Engineer

Back At You

Set frontend direction for a real estate marketing platform — the architecture, the standards, and the calls the rest of the team builds on. Mentor engineers, run technical review, and turn roadmap into work a team can actually ship.

In transit
2016–214 yr 2 mo

Sr. Lead Frontend Developer

MainStem

Built the “Amazon of the cannabis industry” — a React purchasing platform running real money for real dispensaries.

Arrived
20161 yr

Lead Frontend Developer

Full Spectrum Laser

Took the companion app for the Dremel laser cutter from concept JPEGs to a working product in under a year, mostly solo.

Arrived
20145 mo

Co-founder / Frontend

GreenMed.us

Closed my web firm to build SaaS for the cannabis industry. Acquired by a company in Vancouver, WA.

Acquired
2012–142 yr

Co-owner

Jovian Business

Co-founded a web firm with two colleagues. Learned what running the business costs you.

Arrived
2008–102 yr 6 mo

Graphic Design

Accounts.com

Flipping MMORPG accounts until necessity turned me into a web developer. Helped invent what the industry later named loot boxes and virtual goods.

Origin

Selected Work

More on GitHub →
2026–nowsolo

Wave Silo

Desktop app · Go + Electron

A sample library manager for producers. Points it at your folders of chaos and gives back a fast, tagged, searchable library that drags straight into a DAW. Designed, built, signed, and shipped it myself, and I use it every day.

Shipping
2025open source

Traktor / Lemur MIDI Mixer

MIDI mapping · Traktor

MIDI maps and Lemur templates that turn a tablet into a working control surface for Traktor. Built it for my own sets, then left it out for anyone who wanted it.

Public

Toolkit

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Vue
  • Astro
  • CSS / SCSS
  • Vite

Backend & Desktop

  • Go
  • Node
  • Python
  • Electron
  • REST APIs

Data & Infra

  • Postgres
  • SQLite
  • Git
  • CI / CD
  • Vercel
  • Railway