Kaden Wilkinson
Technical Co-Founder at AskElephant
Eagle Mountain, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolKaden Wilkinson is a Technical Co-Founder and staff-level engineer with a decade of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently leading AskElephant after senior roles at Jasper and Divvy. He specializes in Federated GraphQL architectures, API contracts and developer experience—building centralized protobuf repositories, Nx monorepos, org-wide CI/PR tooling and automated PR rules, and delivering a talk at ElixirConf on scaling GraphQL. Kaden has shipped greenfield mobile products (one showcased at CES), led Divvy’s mobile rebrand and open-sourced absinthe_federation, and contributed features and fixes to the widely used Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir. Comfortable across TypeScript/React/React Native and Elixir stacks, he blends UI/UX sensibility with backend architecture chops to simplify complex integrations like the Divvy–Bill.com consolidation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) CIT w/ CS Emphasis, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) CIT w/ CS Emphasis at Utah Tech University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (19)
wp-graphql10
elixir10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
schemaorg9
testing9
schema-design9
schema9
sdl8
crash-reports6
firebase6
app-store-connect6
xcode6
beta-testing6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
absinthe-graphql/absinthe
Jun 2021 - May 2022
The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kaden primarily contributed to the Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the schema generation process. Their work included supporting object scalars in arguments, enhancing SDL generation to account for prototype schemas, and resolving issues with union rendering. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and introduced tests in several files, contributing to the stability and functionality of the Elixir GraphQL library.
servicesapirelayelixirgraphiql
DivvyPayHQ/absinthe_federation
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Adds Apollo Federation Spec conformance to the absinthe GraphQL library
Contributions:11 releases, 47 reviews, 42 commits in 1 year 1 month
conformanceelixirgraphql-libraryapollo-federationspec
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