Kurtis Kemple
Sr. Director Of Developer Relations
United States
Summary
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RockstarKurt Kemple is a software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on developer experience and front-end engineering across web and React Native ecosystems. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Gatsby and multiple React Native libraries, improving performance, animation rendering, and developer tooling such as ESLint integration and createNodeId consistency. Kurt's work blends visible UI improvements (carousels, calendar components, gesture handling) with behind-the-scenes fixes for build, test, and performance issues, including preventing unnecessary re-renders and tuning scroll/velocity behavior. Remote-first and US-based, he helps teams and individuals ship more reliable, maintainable interfaces by pairing pragmatic refactors with targeted feature additions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
webpack310
javascript10
react-native10
ui-components10
calendars10
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webpack-310
flatlist10
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javascripts10
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webpack410
webpacker10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kkemple/react-native-sideswipe
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
Simple React Native carousel with sensible defaults
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 33 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Kurtis primarily focused on enhancing the `react-native-sideswipe` component, refactoring existing code and implementing new features. Their work included cleaning up React API usage, improving animation renders, and preventing unneeded re-renders. The user also addressed velocity handling and scroll performance. Moreover, they added support for `onEndReached` functionality and incorporated features to pass gesture events.
reactreact-native-carouselsensiblereact-nativecarousel
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 34 PRs, 39 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kurtis contributed to the Gatsby framework by fixing banner positioning on the website and adding an ESLint loader to the webpack configuration. They also worked on consistently using createNodeId in gatsby-source-contentful and disabling Gatsby ESLint if a local configuration is found. Furthermore, the user updated the site showcase with deep linking for filters and added active state to the top navigation, improving user experience.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
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