# Jeff Cross

> Jeff Cross is the Gilbert, Arizona-based co-founder and CEO of Nx, the developer-tools company he started with fellow former Google Angular engineer Victor Savkin. His route ran from learning web design from his mother at about 12, through Flash, JavaScript and the open-source backend toolkit Deployd, to Google’s Angular team. Consulting work with large organizations exposed the costly coordination problems Nx was built to solve; the company later turned its open-source monorepo tooling into a broader build and CI platform and raised a $16 million Series A in 2023.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Nx
- **Organizations:** Nx, Nrwl, Google, Angular, Deployd
- **Known for:** Co-founded Nx and led its evolution from an Angular-focused open-source toolkit into a broader monorepo, build and CI platform., Served as tech lead of Google’s Angular Mobile team and was an early Angular core team member., Developed the Angular 2 HTTP and AngularFire2 modules and contributed to RxJS 5.

## Career timeline

- **c. 12 years old** — Learned to build websites from his mother, who worked as an intranet webmaster, using tools including Microsoft FrontPage.
- **Early career** — Worked in web design and Flash, then moved deeper into JavaScript and application development.
- **2011** — Co-created Deployd, an open-source toolkit for building real-time APIs.
- **2010s** — Joined Google and became an early Angular core team member and tech lead of the Angular Mobile team; worked on Angular 2 HTTP and AngularFire2 and contributed to RxJS 5.
- **2016** — Co-founded Nrwl with Victor Savkin, initially focused on Angular consulting for large organizations.
- **2017** — Co-authored Essential Angular with Victor Savkin and helped introduce Nx as tooling for monorepo-based development.
- **2022** — Nx announced an $8.6 million seed round and assumed stewardship of the Lerna monorepo project.
- **2023** — Announced a $16 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.
- **2025-2026** — Expanded Nx’s direction toward AI-assisted development, CI automation and cross-repository context through products including Polygraph.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Nx and led its evolution from an Angular-focused open-source toolkit into a broader monorepo, build and CI platform.
- Served as tech lead of Google’s Angular Mobile team and was an early Angular core team member.
- Developed the Angular 2 HTTP and AngularFire2 modules and contributed to RxJS 5.
- Co-created the open-source Deployd backend toolkit.
- Co-authored Essential Angular with Victor Savkin.
- Raised an $8.6 million seed round in 2022 and a $16 million Series A in 2023 for Nx.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Discussed Nx’s consulting origins, open-source model, AI direction and multi-repository roadmap on The Weekly Dev’s Brew.
- **2024-08** — Appeared on ConTejas Code to discuss Nx’s origins, monorepo migrations, CI optimization, product positioning and enterprise sales.
- **2023-09** — Announced Nx’s $16 million Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

## Links

- Website: https://nx.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbcross
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/jeffbcross
- GitHub: https://github.com/jeffbcross
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nxdevtools

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Last updated: 2026-09-27