Braeden Smith
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolBraeden Smith is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production web applications and developer tooling, currently contributing to Palantir’s front-end codebase. A University of Illinois CompE graduate, he brings a full-stack mindset shaped by internships at Microsoft, Vistaprint, and security-focused Castle, where work ranged from distributed task-tracking APIs to order-management microservices and high-scale scraping optimizations. He actively contributes to open-source React tooling—improving Palantir’s widely used Blueprint UI library by fixing edge cases, adding Portal features, and tightening React hook linting—demonstrating attention to both UX and code quality. Comfortable across TypeScript/React, Java/Spring, Python, and C#, he frequently bridges front-end UX and backend systems while improving observability and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him for dependable bug fixes and pragmatic enhancements that reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Staples High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
hotkeys9
popover8
tooltip8
tooltips8
react-hooks7
eslint7
component-kit5
blueprint5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/blueprint
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 commit, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Braeden primarily contributed to the React-based UI toolkit. Their commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing existing components, such as fixing an edge case in `OverflowList` and resolving React synthetic event warnings in `Popover`. They also added features like the `portalContainer` option to the `Portal` component and made various improvements to the `TooltipContext` and `HotkeysProvider`. Additionally, the user made changes related to enabling ESLint rules for React hooks and fixing associated errors in the documentation examples.
reactui-toolkittypescriptlernadesign
braeden/movie_magic
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:56 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 15 days
artcapturesmovieslicespieces
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