Engineering Executive • React Foundation • Product Builder
Seth Webster — Engineering Executive, React Foundation Executive Director, and Product Builder.
20+ years leading teams at the frontier of developer experience. Head of React at Meta. Founding Executive Director of the React Foundation. Builder of next-generation AI interfaces and developer tooling.
Years leading teams
20+
Scope of Management
Teams > 100
360° Leadership
Manager Scores > 90
Product focus
Infra as Product • AI interfaces • DevX & tooling • OSS
Currently
Executive Director, React Foundation
Stewarding governance, funding, and sustainability for the React ecosystem.
Timeline
A people-first journey across React
Executive Director, React Foundation
Stood up the foundation’s governance, funding architecture, and global outreach so React can thrive for the next decade.
Launched sustainability initiatives, RIS scoring, and CoIS meetups.
React Compiler & Developer Tooling
Directed the ship that delivered React Compiler, refreshed React DevTools, and reset the bar for DX across Meta and the community.
Kept React fast while welcoming AI-powered workflows.
Scaling the React Organization
Grew the React org from roughly 35 to 70 engineers while maintaining focus on people-first leadership and high trust rituals.
Quadrupled the React Native release cadence.
Head of React at Meta
Took on React’s stewardship at Meta, relaunched React Conf, and accelerated the ecosystem for builders everywhere.
20+ years of leadership focused on helping ideas ship.
Focus
Grounded leadership across DX, AI, and open source
Developer Platforms
Led React at Meta, relaunched React Conf, and modernized the tooling stack so builders can move from idea to production faster.
AI Interfaces
Pairs React’s ergonomics with AI-forward workflows to unlock new product surfaces for teams shipping assistants, copilots, and automation.
Open Source Ecosystems
Executive Director of the React Foundation with a mandate to align governance, funding, and community stewardship.
Testimonials
Direct, pragmatic, and deeply human
“Seth built the strongest team I've ever had the privilege to work with: helping each individual be the best version of themselves. The skills I've learned from Seth helped me not just at work but in my personal life, helping me be a better partner and father.”
Joseph Savona
User Interface Engineer, Meta
“If you want to expand business, grow skills for yourself and everyone around you, get a handle on flawed processes, or build technology many consider impossible — figure out how to work with Seth.”
Jack Pope
React Team, Meta
“His superpower has been about 'people-first', empowering his team to unleash their own strengths, balancing doing the right things with the right principles, which resulted in great results I often never imagined were possible.”
Kevin Gozali
Software Engineering Manager, Meta
Advisory & Board Work
Partnering with developer-first companies
I help leadership teams align strategy, governance, and execution for developer platforms, AI interfaces, and OSS ecosystems.