Bob Krier
Founder Principal Software Architect at USA Ultimate
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBob Krier is a founder and principal software architect with 12 years of professional engineering experience and a longer technical pedigree spanning startups to Microsoft. He builds and operates SaaS platforms for industrial-scale systems (currently monitoring commercial photovoltaic plants) while staying hands-on in application development, including Android work and deep editor/terminal integrations. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced notable modal editors like helix and kakoune with UI, windowing and terminal integrations (Zellij, WezTerm), reflecting a focus on developer ergonomics and tooling. His background in applied mathematics and economics underpins pragmatic system design and performance tuning, and he brings an unusual mix of product-level ownership and low-level UX/terminal engineering.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, Economics, B.A., Mathematics, Economics at State University of New York at BuffaloUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (19)
git10
text-editor10
scripting10
user-interface10
modals10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
modal-dialog10
script10
kakoune10
cplus10
command-line10
modal-windows10
sh10
rust10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
helix-editor/helix
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
A post-modern modal text editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 17 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on enhancing the text editor's functionality and user interface. Their contributions include implementing new features like "wonly" for window management and "readline style insert mode," as well as integrating new commands and keybindings. They also refactored and improved existing features, such as aligning selections, and added functionalities like a jumplist picker and the ability to prefill prompts, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the user experience and editor capabilities.
modalvimkakounerusttext-editor
mawww/kakoune
Jun 2021 - Aug 2024
mawww's experiment for a better code editor
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 17 PRs, 51 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bob contributed to the Kakoune text editor by implementing features related to windowing and terminal integration, specifically focusing on integrations with Zellij and Wezterm. They added commands, configuration files, and shell scripting to facilitate the creation and management of terminal panes and windows within these environments. Furthermore, the user enhanced the editor's functionality by including Groovy file type support and making improvements to the git integration tools.
vimkakounec-plus-plusmodal-editingconsole-application
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