Hello, my name is Kris

I am an innovative leader and experienced software engineer with a passion for continuous learning. I excel at driving efficiency, streamlining processes, and fostering a collaborative work environment to achieve outstanding results.

Skills

Frontend Development

I’ve worked with various frameworks including React, Vue, and Ember; but have also helped build design systems using web components, maintained a micro-frontend framework, and much more.

Communication

I am very comfortable mentoring, training, and educating teams. Whether it’s one-on-ones or presentations in front of hundreds, I pride myself in remaining clear and calm.

Backend Development

Throughout my career, I’ve had the pleasure of working on backends built with Node, Ruby on Rails, Django, Tornado, and even PHP. While it’s not my top skill set, I am still quite comfortable with it.

Strategy and Planning

Taking a big idea, breaking it down into achievable steps, and putting those steps into the right order is a crucial step that I thrive at. Whether it’s the next sprint, or the next year, I can envision it.

Accessibility

Since 2016, I have become a leading voice in every organization I have worked in to advocate for accessible designs and tooling to ensure everyone is able to use our products.

Best Practices

Over the years, I’ve developed a rhythm of ensuring that tests get written, documentation is provided, code is readable, and questions get answered. It has resulted in the respect of my peers.

Experience

Software Engineering Manager at Q2 (Austin, TX) - 2023 to Present

  • Managed a team of four to maintain and build features for the corporate design system.

  • Served as liaison for multiple products to guide teams toward adopting the design system and micro-frontend framework we maintained.

  • Helped lead regular training sessions for developers to use our product suite.

Staff Software Engineer at Q2 (Austin, TX) - 2021 to 2023

  • Revitalized product reputation by providing training, support, and clear communication.

  • Planned and thoroughly strategized multiple years worth of upcoming features.

  • Pushed for aggressive addition of tests to reduce bugs and regressions in the codebase.

Senior Software Engineer at Outstand (Atlanta, GA) - 2019 to 2021

  • Created an accessible design system and implemented it across the products codebases.

  • Collaborated with award-winning designers to create an accessible and fun product.

  • Built out features using React Native, Elm, Ember, Coffeescript, and more.

Senior Software Engineer at Q2 (Austin, TX) - 2016 to 2019

  • Became the point person on accessibility, building, and refactoring several components and features to comply with WCAG standards.

  • Gave talks and training on the value of writing tests and contributed thousands of tests to the codebase during my employment.

More history is available upon request…