Brad Cornes
Design Engineer at ElevenLabs
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Cornes is a design-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building polished front-end experiences and tooling, currently working as a Design Engineer at ElevenLabs in Leeds. He spent several years at Tailwind Labs where he contributed to high-profile open-source projects—improving Tailwind CSS, its JIT compiler, VS Code intellisense, and the Prettier plugin that sorts Tailwind classes—demonstrating deep expertise in CSS tooling and developer experience. As a Staff UI Engineer at Clerk and Head of Front-end at Parallax, he combined hands-on implementation with build-system and packaging improvements, shipping React and Vue packages and cross-framework support. His work often sits at the intersection of design and engineering: refining typography, class handling, and build scripts to make interfaces easier to author and maintain. He brings a practical Computer Science background from the University of York and a track record of solving tricky caching, parsing, and formatting edge cases in widely used developer tools. Colleagues would note his knack for making developer-facing systems feel thoughtful and reliable while quietly improving many projects’ DX.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of YorkA-levels, A-levels at Cardinal Newman College Preston
Github Skills (38)
babel610
caching10
javascript10
testing10
css10
postcss10
vscode-extension10
intellisense10
tailwind10
front-end-development10
tailwindcss10
vue10
babel-core10
html10
babeljs10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tailwindlabs/prettier-plugin-tailwindcss
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
A Prettier plugin for Tailwind CSS that automatically sorts classes based on our recommended class order.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 86 commits, 31 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to a Prettier plugin for Tailwind CSS. Their work involved adding and modifying parsers for various languages and frameworks, including HTML, LWC, Vue, Angular, CSS, SCSS, Less, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Svelte. They also implemented features to sort and format class attributes, handle template literals, and integrate with Tailwind CSS configuration files, enhancing the plugin's core functionality.
tailwindcsstailwindcsstailwind-cssprettier-plugin
tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-intellisense
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Intelligent Tailwind CSS tooling for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 releases, 2 reviews, 829 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the development of a VS Code extension for Tailwind CSS, with a focus on enhancing the developer experience. Their work included implementing an intelligent code completion system, allowing users to easily insert and manage Tailwind CSS classes. They also added hover providers to display CSS definitions for the classes, and they integrated support for features like `@apply` directives and various CSS file types, including those in Vue and Svelte.
visual-studiotailwindcssvisual-studio-codetailwindcss
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